Nate DiMeo is the creator of The Memory Palace. DiMeo has reported extensively on pop culture for NPR's Morning Edition, and All Things Considered and worked variously as an editor, producer, and reporter for Marketplace and NPR's On Point. He's written for NBC's Parks and Recreation and ABC's The Astronauts' Wives Club. He was a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor in 2012 for ghost-writing the book Pawnee: the Greatest Town in America for the fictional character, Leslie Knope. He is currently the artist-in-residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.