Anna Pitoniak is the author of The Futures, which was named a best book of 2017 by theSkimm and Refinery29. She graduated from Yale, where she majored in English and was an editor at the Yale Daily News. She worked for many years in book publishing, most recently as a Senior Editor at Random House. She grew up in Whistler, British Columbia, and now lives in New York City. Her new novel, Necessary People, will be published in May 2019.