Brooks Sterritt is the author of The History of America in My Lifetime. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Vice, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, HTMLGIANT, Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, Subtropics, and other magazines. A former Fulbright Scholar to Germany, he is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Houston-Victoria. Since 2022 he has been co-host of the podcast Post Era.