Catherine Lacey is a Whiting Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Her books include The Möbius Book, Biography of X, Pew, Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, and Certain American States.

Biography of X, a national bestseller, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and was named one of the ten best books of 2023 by Time, Vulture, and Publishers Weekly, with additional recognition from The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and others.