HEATHER HAVRILESKY

Heather Havrilesky writes New York Magazine's Ask Polly advice column and Bookforum's Best Seller List column. She is the author of the forthcoming book HOW TO BE A PERSON IN THE WORLD, out from Doubleday in July 2016. She is also the author of the memoir DISASTER PREPAREDNESS (Riverhead, 2011). She was Salon.com's TV critic for 7 years and co-created the cartoon Filler for Suck.com, the web's first daily site. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Baffler, The Awl, NPR's All Things Considered, and several anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles with a loud assortment of dependents, most of them non-deductible.