Kelsey Osgood is a Brook­lyn-based writer. She has con­tributed to The New York­er’s Cul­ture Desk blog, Salon, New York, and Gothamist, among oth­ers. She is a grad­u­ate of Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and Goucher’s Col­lege’s MFA pro­gram in Cre­ative Non­fic­tion. How to Dis­ap­pear Com­plete­ly is her first book.