Andrea Scrima, an American artist and writer based in Berlin.is the author of the novels A Lesser Day (Spuyten Duyvil, 2010; as Wie viele Tage, Literaturverlag Droschl, 2018) and Kreisläufe (Like Lips, Like Skins) (2021). Scrima has written essays for the Times Literary Supplement, taz, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Schreibheft, Music & Literature, The American Scholar, Hyperallergic, LitHub, Cargo, The Millions, manuskripte, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others; is editor-in-chief of the New York-based literary journal StatORec; and publishes a regular column at Three Quarks Daily. In 2020, she edited the anthology Writing the Virus, a New York Times Sunday Book Review “New & Noteworthy” title of 2021.