Writing

Xochitl Gonzalez

Xochitl Gonzalez (/ˈsoʊtʃiːl/, SO-cheel; born 1977) is an American writer. In 2022, she published her debut novel, Olga Dies Dreaming, which became a New York Times bestseller on January 30, 2022. In 2021, she began writing the newsletter "Brooklyn, Everywhere" for The Atlantic. In 2023, she joined The Atlantic as a staff writer and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work there.