Andrew Rid­ker was born in 1991. His writ­ing has appeared in The New York Times Mag­a­zine, The Paris Review, Dai­ly Guer­ni­ca, Boston Review, The Believ­er, and St. Louis Mag­a­zine; and he is the edi­tor of Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: The Anthol­o­gy of Sur­veil­lance Poet­ics. He is the recip­i­ent of an Iowa Arts Fel­low­ship from the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop. The Altru­ists is his first novel.