Kristen Roupenian
Kristen Roupenian is an American writer, most famous for "Cat Person," a New Yorker short story that went viral. She attended Barnard College before joining the Peace Corps and teaching public health and HIV education in Kenya. She completed her Ph.D. in English at Harvard in 2014, and her MFA at the University of Michigan in 2017. Before "Cat Person," she had only been published in small literary journals. With "Cat Person," she achieved unexpected fame, realizing after the story's...