O’Gieblyn is the author of the essay collection Interior States, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award for nonfiction, and God, Human, Animal, Machine. Her latest book, Will and Attention, is scheduled for publication by Doubleday in October 2026.

She has written for Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, n+1, The Point, The Baffler, Wired, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The New York Times, and other publications. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and the 2023 Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her essays have appeared in The Best American Essays and The Contemporary American Essay anthologies.

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