Kristin Dombek is the author of a 2016 book on the fear of narcissism, The Selfishness of Others. She is the 2013 winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her essays can be found in the New York Times, Harper’s magazine, the London Review of Books, n+1, and the Paris Review. She has written an advice column for n+1 called “The Help Desk.”