Maris Kreizman

Maris Kreizman is an essayist and critic with a bi-weekly column at Lit Hub whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The LA Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, Esquire, The New Republic, Cosmopolitan, The Ringer, GQ, Publishers Weekly, Smithsonian, Town & Country, and more.

She has an essay collection called I Want To Burn This Place Down, coming in July 2025 from Ecco/HarperCollins. She hosted The Maris Review, an intimate literary podcast in which she interviewed her favorite authors about their latest books, from 2018-2023, and now runs a newsletter of the same name.

She’s the creator of Slaughterhouse 90210, a blog and book (Flatiron Books, 2015) that celebrates the intersection of literature and pop culture. She was previously the editorial director of Book of the Month, the editorial director of digital content at B&N.com, and a publishing outreach lead at Kickstarter.

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, her dog, and her books.

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