Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. Her novels include Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate. I Love Dick was adapted for television and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.