Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them (Penguin Press); WHAT WAS IT FOR (Rescue Press, 2017), selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the Black Box Poetry Prize; and OUR DARK ACADEMIA (Rescue Press, 2022). Her essays, poetry, and criticism appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The New Republic, and The Atlantic, among other publications.