Rebecca Makkai is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel I Have Some Questions for You, as well as The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, The Borrower, and the story collection Music for Wartime.

The Great Believers, named one of The New York Times's Best Books of the 21st Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and won the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Stonewall Book Award. Makkai is a Guggenheim Fellow and artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago