Katy Lederer is the author of three books of poems and a family memoir. Her writing has appeared in over sixty newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker online, the Boston Review and the Paris Review. She writes regularly about energy and climate change for n+1 and has written features, reviews and a satirical work advice column for The New York Times. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she worked in quantitative finance for twelve years. She can be reached at .