Rainer Diana Hamilton is the author of five books: This Reasonable Habit, cowritten with Violet Spurlock (Spunk Editions 2026), Lilacs (Krupskaya Books 2025), God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Presse 2018), The Awful Truth (Golias Books 2017), and Okay, Okay (Truck Books 2012). They received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where they tried to define "style," and they currently work as the director of the Baruch College Writing Center.