Kristin Dombek
Kristin Dombek is the author of two books: The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism (2016), which has been translated into multiple languages, and How to Quit, forthcoming in 2021. Her essays have been published in The New Yorker, Vice, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, London Review of Books, n+1, The Financial Times, and The Paris Review, and anthologized in Best American Essays and elsewhere.
She has been a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Imitatio, and the n+1 Foundation.
Dombek has taught the craft of essay, memoir, journalism, and rhetoric in the MFA program at Queens College/CUNY, in the Princeton Writing Program, and in workshops and master classes at places like Stanford University, Eastern Washington University, Franklin and Marshall College, New York University, and the University of Münster.
Dombek teaches Creative Nonfiction in our low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.