Tara Isabella Burton’s debut novel, 2018’s Social Creature, was named a “book of the year” by the New York Times, New York’s Vulture, and the Guardian. She is also the author of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (2020), and is a columnist for the Religion News Service and a contributing editor at the American Purpose. Tara received a doctorate in theology from Trinity College, Oxford, where she was a Clarendon Scholar, in 2017.