Camille Bordas is the author of three prizewinning novels. The most recent, The Material, was the second she wrote in English after How to Behave in a Crowd. The earlier two, Partie Commune and Les Treize Desserts, were written in her native French. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The Paris Review. She has been named a Guggenheim Fellow. Born in France, raised in Mexico City and Paris, she currently lives in Chicago.