
Likes: The Real Housewives, buttermilk biscuits, curated email folders, Olive Garden, The Office holiday episodes, dogs, and happy hour (if With Teeth were a drink it would be screwdriver). She’s met many of friends on Twitter, including her girlfriend, writer Kayla Kumari Upadhyaha. The Miami-based Sagittarius has a French bulldog named Lola, once lived in a house a few blocks from where Zora Neale Hurston was raised, and tweets ideas for theme bars. And the first (and only?) book launched at an Orlando 7-Eleven was her short story collection Felt in the Jaw. Other firsts: her debut novel Mostly Dead Things was a New York Times bestseller and Lambda Literary Award finalist. Devoted daughter of Florida, queer writer, and librarian (our first in Shelf Life-and hopefully not last), Kristen Arnett has just released her second novel, With Teeth (Riverhead) about the messiness of lesbian parenthood.
