After the Fact

Jamie Hood is the author of Trauma Plot: A Life (Vintage, 2026), the hybrid pandemic diary How to Be a Good Girl (Vintage, 2025/Grieveland, 2020), and Regards, Marcel, an occasional, Proust-infused newsletter. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She’s working on a collection of poetry and a novel. She lives in Brooklyn.

Alexandra Auder is a writer and actor. Her memoir, Don’t Call Me Home (Viking 2023), about growing up in the Chelsea Hotel with a crazy mom, (Warhol superstar Viva), was a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. She leads an online weekly writing group through Substack.

Melisse Gelula is the founder of Memoiring, a book club and writing community that hosts notable memoirists for events and workshops, and the co-founder of pioneering media company Well+Good (successfully acquired in 2018). Her work has been featured in such outlets as The New York Times, Vogue, Electric Literature, and Grand Journal, as well as on Good Morning America and CBS This Morning. Melisse is currently writing a memoir about being raised by a child psychologist who starts to hear voices. She lives in the Western Catskills and works with writers one-on-one and in groups. You can follow Melisse at https://memoiring.substack.com/ and on Instagram @MelisseJoy and @Memoir_ing.