SLOANE CROSLEY is the author of The New York Times bestselling books Grief Is for People, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a 2009 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor). She is also the author of Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the novels, Cult Classic and The Clasp, both of which she has adapted for film. Her work has been translated into eight languages.

Her writing has been featured in The Library of America’s 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay and others. She was the inaugural columnist for The New York Times Op-Ed “Townies” series, a contributing editor at Interview Magazine, and a columnist for The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Independent, Black Book, Departures and The New York Observer. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, The Atlantic and The Guardian. She has been an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s MFA program and a guest teacher at Dartmouth College and The Yale Writers’ Workshop.

She lives in New York City.

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