Lily Mey­er is a trans­la­tor, a crit­ic, and the author of the nov­el Short War. She is also a con­tribut­ing writer at The Atlantic. Her sto­ries and trans­la­tions can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewa­nee Review, The South­ern Review, and many oth­er jour­nals, and her essays and crit­i­cism appear in out­lets includ­ing Book­fo­rum, The New York­er, and The New York Times Book Review.