Kirsten Menger-Anderson is an American fiction writer. She was born on December 6, 1969. She holds a degree in Economics from Haverford College and an MA in English and creative writing from San Francisco State University. Menger-Anderson's first book, Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain, is a collection of linked short stories published by Algonquin Books in 2008. Several of the stories in this collection have appeared in literary journals including Ploughshares and the Southwest Review. Her debut novel, The Expert of Subtle Revisions, was published by Penguin Random House and released on March 18, 2025. Before becoming a full-time writer, Menger-Anderson worked at Salon.com and Wired.com. She currently lives in San Francisco in an old Victorian house with her husband and children. Her grandfather was the mathematician Karl Menger.