James Tate Hill is the author of the memoir Blind Man’s Bluff (W. W. Norton), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021. His fiction debut, Academy Gothic, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His stories and essays have been published in Lit Hub, Shondaland, Salon, Prairie Schooner, and In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology, among others, and his work has been listed as Notable in three editions of The Best American Essays. Fiction Editor for Monkeybicycle, he was born in Charleston, WV and currently lives in Greensboro, NC.