Fiction Writer & Essayist
Krista Diamond is a Las Vegas based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Cosmopolitan, Slate, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her debut novel Close Relationships with Strangers will be published on June 23, 2026 by Simon & Schuster and is available for preorder now.
Close Relationships with Strangers follows a Las Vegas wildlife photographer who moves to Los Angeles to become a paparazzo and in the process loses his relationships, his morals, and eventually his tether to reality.
On sale June 23, 2026 from Simon & Schuster