Naomi Washer is a writer and psychoanalyst in formation in New York City. Her most recent book is Marginalia: an autobiography (Autofocus Books, 2025). Her novel, Subjects We Left Out, was published by Veliz Books in 2021. She is the author of several chapbooks across genre, and her work has appeared in Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Essay Daily, Seneca Review, Asymptote, the anthology In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American Responses to Fernando Pessoa, and other journals. She writes Process Notes about psychoanalysis, reading, and subjectivity, and is host of the podcast Reading Around the Margins.

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