Andrew Ridker is the author of the novels Hope and The Altruists.

The Altruists was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Paris Review staff pick, an Amazon Editors’ Pick, and the People Book of the Week. Translated into more than a dozen languages, it won the Friends of American Writers Award and was longlisted for the Prix du Meilleur livre étranger and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize.

Hope, also a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, the Forward, and the Times of Israel. Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, it is currently in development with a major streaming service as a limited series.

He is the editor of Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Le Monde, Bookforum, Guernica, Boston Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Andrew lives in Brooklyn, New York.