Her work includes the novels The Pisces (Penguin Random House 2018),[1] Milk Fed (Simon and Schuster 2021),[2] and Death Valley (Scribner, 2023);[3] the poetry collection Last Sext (Tin House 2016);[4] and the essay collection So Sad Today (Grand Central 2016),[5] as well as the Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based.

She graduated in 2001 with a degree in English and then moved to San Francisco, where she worked odd jobs before relocating to New York City at 25.

There she worked as a publicist for Penguin Books and attended night classes at City College of New York, earning an MFA in poetry.

[5] In 2018 Broder published the novel The Pisces,[1] which garnered praise from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and The Washington Post.

In 2021, Broder published Milk Fed,[15] a critically acclaimed[16] novel that Kirkus called "[b]old, dry, and delightfully dirty.

[18] Broder records a podcast titled eating alone in my car in which she openly discusses her work, daily life, obsessions, and "rants about everything from mortality to Poptarts to depression".