Heather Havrilesky

Heather Havrilesky is an essayist and critic who writes New York Magazine's popular Ask Polly advice column. She is the author of What If This Were Enough? (Doubleday, 2018), How to Be a Person in the World (Doubleday, 2016) and Disaster Preparedness (Riverhead, 2011). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, NPR's All Things Considered, and several anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles with a loud assortment of dependents, most of them non-deductible.