Hari Kunzru, born in London, is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, and Gods without Men, as well as a short story collection, Noise, and a novella, Memory Palace. His forthcoming novel White Tears will be published in 2017. His short stories and essays have appeared in diverse publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Granta, BookForum, and Frieze. He was a 2008 Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library and a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow.