BENEDICT NGUYỄN is a dancer and gym regular. Between pistol squats and muscle ups, she works as a creative producer in live performance. She’s written for The Baffler, BOMB, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The Brooklyn Rail, AAWW’s The Margins, and more. In 2022, she published the redacted email zine on freelance labor, nasty notes. Hot Girls with Balls is her first novel.