E.R. Ramzipoor is a writer based in Cal­i­for­nia. She also works as a con­tent mar­keter, writ­ing about cyber­crime and online fraud. She stud­ied polit­i­cal sci­ence at UC Berke­ley, where she researched under­ground lit­er­a­ture in resis­tance move­ments and dis­cov­ered the for­got­ten sto­ry of Faux Soir. Her writ­ing has been fea­tured in McSweeney’s and The Ven­tril­o­quists is her first nov­el. She lives with her part­ner and a ter­ri­er mix named Lada.