Katja Blichfeld is a writer, director, producer, and casting director. She is known for co-creating and directing HBO’s High Maintenance, and she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting on a Comedy Series for her work on 30 Rock.
Justine Lupe started her career in Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha and in David Chase’s Not Fade Away. She then went on to star onstage in the Philip Seymour Hoffman-directed drama A Family for All Occasions at the Bank Street Theater. Recent work includes Home Economics, Succession, Mr. Mercedes, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Sneaky Pete, Snowfall, Younger, and Cristela. Lupe wrote, produced, and directed the short films South of Bix and The Recorder, and was on the creative team of The Non-Essentials.
Cynthia Nixon made her film debut in Little Darlings at 12 and her Broadway debut at 14 in The Philadelphia Story. Since then she’s appeared in more than 40 plays, scores of films and TV shows, and won 2 Emmys, 2 Tonys, and a Grammy. Best known for her role as Miranda on HBO’s Sex and the City, she co-stars in the sequel series And Just Like That…. Nixon appeared on numerous "Best Actress of 2018" lists for her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in Terrence Davies' much-lauded film A Quiet Passion. In 2018 she also ran for Governor of New York state. She currently co-stars in Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age on HBO.
Shelly Oria is the author of the short story collection New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 and the editor of the anthology Indelible in the Hippocampus. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Quarterly West, cream city review, and FiveChapters, among other publications. Oria’s work has been honored with the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, a Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria, the LMCC Workspace Grant, and three MacDowell Fellowships.
Parker Posey has appeared in many independent films—Broken English, Price Check, Party Girl, The House of Yes, Fay Grimm, Clockwatchers, and Columbus—to name a few. Most people know her from the Christopher Guest movies, such as Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show. She’s done a few Hollywood movies like Superman Returns, Blade Trinity, and Josie and the Pussycats. She published her first book, You’re on an Airplane, which became a national best seller. From 2018 - 21, she starred in the reboot of Lost in Space. Posey was featured on Dick Wolf’s podcast, Hunted, and on the recent series The Staircase. Her forthcoming projects include The Parenting, Disappointment Blvd., and Bream Gives Me Hiccups.
Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the short story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It, which was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club, and the novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, and most recently, Rodham. Sittenfeld’s writing, fiction and nonfiction, has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Esquire, The Atlantic, Slate, Vanity Fair, Salon, and Time, among other publications.
Xuan Juliana Wang is the author of the short story collection Home Remedies, winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. Home Remedies was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and named one of the Best Books of the Season by Elle, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast, and the New York Observer. Her writing has been featured in The Cut, Ploughshares, Gigantic Mag, Narrative Magazine, and The Atlantic, among other publications. Wang teaches creative writing at UCLA.
Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife, which was adapted to film in 2018, starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. She was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published books for young readers, mostly recently a picture book, Millions of Maxes. Wolitzer is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year, non-credit intensive in the novel. She is excited to be the new host of the literary radio show and podcast Selected Shorts.
About The Cut
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Since 2018, the Cut has published a monthly work of fiction, by writers including Samantha Hunt, Alice Sola Kim, Téa Obreht, and Jacqueline Woodson.
CREDITS
“Fully Zipped” by Shelly Oria, from New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). Copyright © 2014 by Shelly Oria. Used by permission of Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
“Future Cat” by Xuan Juliana Wang, from Home Remedies (Hogarth, 2019). First appeared in The Cut (May 14, 2019). Copyright © 2019 by Xuan Juliana Wang. Used by permission of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
“Bad Latch” by Curtis Sittenfeld, from You Think It, I’ll Say It (Random House, 2018). First appeared in The Washington Post Magazine (August 2015). Copyright © 2015 by Curtis Sittenfeld. Used by permission of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
