Adrienne Brodeur is an author and executive director of Aspen Words at the Aspen Institute. Her forthcoming novel, Little Monsters, publishes in July 2023, and her memoir, Wild Game, was named a best book of the year by Amazon, NPR, People, and The Washington Post and is in development as a Netflix film. Prior to Aspen Words, Brodeur was an acquiring editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She also co-founded the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story and was its editor in chief from 1996 to 2002, during which time it won the National Magazine Award for Best Fiction. Brodeur has served as a judge for the National Book Award, and her essays have appeared in Glamour, O Magazine, The National, The New York Times, Vogue, and other publications.