Adrienne Brodeur is the Executive Director of Aspen Words, a literary nonprofit and program of the Aspen Institute. She is also the bestselling author of the novel Little Monsters, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Vogue Best Book of 2023 and the memoir Wild Game, a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, NPR, People, and the Washington Post. Both books are in development to become films. She founded the literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, served as an acquiring editor at HMH Books, and was a fiction judge for the National Book Award. Her essays have appeared in Bon Appetit, Glamour, O Magazine, The National, The New York Times, Vogue, and other publications.