Lifelong Bostonian; ex-longtime Animal Care Vol (including for 2 kinds of zebra). Chronically ill, PTSD-having, neurodivergent introvert; mask wearer. She/her.

Relic fan, lighting designer by night. “He’s a Glen of Imaal Terrier. I-M-A-A-L. It’s a place in Ireland” —me, 7-8 times a day

Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of t