Eula Biss is the author of several books of nonfiction, including the recent Having and Being Had and the highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller On Immunity: An Innoculation and Notes from No Man’s Land, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her essays have appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, the Believer, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, and Harper's. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, she now teaches creative writing at Northwestern University.

“Subtle, spellbinding," Parul Sehgal wrote in the New York Times Book Review about Eula's book, On Immunity. "Sontag said she wrote Illness as Metaphor to 'calm the imagination, not to incite it,' and On Immunity also seeks to cool and console. But where Sontag was imperious, Biss is stealthy. She advances from all sides, like a chess player, drawing on science, myth, literature to herd us to the only logical end, to vaccinate.”