Anna Shechtman is a Klarman Fellow at Cornell University and an assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English. In addition to her bimonthly crosswords for The New Yorker, she has written for a number of outlets, including Artforum, the New Inquiry, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Slate, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is an editor-at-large. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.