Kit Nicholls received a Ph.D. in English at New York University and a B.A. in creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything, co-authored with William Germano (Princeton University Press, 2020), and his essays have appeared in venues such as European Romantic Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Psyche.