Kristen Radtke, Creative Director, The Verge

Kristen Radtke is the creative director of The Verge and the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (2021) and Imagine Wanting Only This (2017). The recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant, her work has been nominated for a PEN/Jean Stein Award, an Eisner Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Metal, and multiple ASME Awards. Her comics and writing have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Elle, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many other places.