Tracy O’Neill is the author of the novels The Hopeful (Ig Publishing, 2015), and Quotients (Soho Press, 2020), a “stunning, and deeply disquieting, literary techno-thriller” (Lithub) infused with “the obsessive questing of early DeLillo” (Commonweal). “O’Neill’s sentences are expertly crafted marvels of economy. Her prose almost feels redacted, as if someone has cut out just the right bits to keep you guessing and thinking and feeling,” says Charles Yu. Her memoir, Woman of Interest (HarperOne, 2024) is “a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge.”

O’Neill was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and a Center For Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow; she holds an MFA from City College and a PhD in media studies from Columbia University. The former editor-in-chief of Epiphany journal, her writing has appeared in Granta, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and other publications. She is an assistant professor at Vassar College.