Maris Kreizman is an essayist and critic. She is the author of the essay collection, I Want to Burn This Place Down (Ecco, 2025), a People Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of Summer 2025. She’s also the creator of Slaughterhouse 90210, a blog and book (Flatiron Books, 2015) that celebrates the intersection of literature and pop culture. She writes a bi-weekly column for Lit Hub, and was the host of The Maris Review, an intimate literary podcast in which she interviewed her favorite authors about their latest books, from 2018-2023. She now runs a newsletter of the same name. Her 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 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.
Asked for her advice for authors on promoting their books effectively, Kreizman responded, “In my career covering books, in podcasts and in print, I’ve conducted hundreds of author interviews, and the very best ones featured writers who were able to make a tight, cohesive narrative out of, well, the narrative they’d already written. As an author, getting the story right is the most important part of writing a book, but getting the story of the story right is the most important part of promoting it, of getting readers to want to buy it."
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, her dog, and her books.
