Tracy O’Neill is the author of the novels The Hopeful and Quotients. She was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was a Narrative 30 Below finalist. She was also named a Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow. O’Neill teaches at Vassar College, and her writing has appeared in Granta, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and other publications.