Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling books Grief Is for People, which was also named a Best Book of 2024 by Vogue, Elle, NPR, LitHub, Oprah Daily, and many more, 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.
She has been featured in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing and Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay. She has been a columnist for The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Independent, Departures, Black Book and The New York Observer. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, her work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Vogue and The Guardian. A Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and Yaddo Fellow, she has also been an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s MFA program and The New School’s MFA program, as well as a guest lecturer at Dartmouth College, The Yale Writers’ Workshop, The School of Visual Arts, New York University and Bowdoin College. She lives in New York City.
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