Sarah Chihaya is a critic, essayist, and editor, and is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, New York magazine, and The Yale Review, among other places. She has taught at Princeton University and NYU, and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Queens, New York.