If I Google you, will I still want to date you?

Probably not.

We hate to ask since we’re not at a party, but “What do you do?”

I’m an award-deserving author, humor writer, teacher, speaker, and editor of Funny Women on The Rumpus. 

I write cultural and personal criticism, and my writing has appeared in 
The New York Times, Marie Claire, Creative Nonfiction, NewYorker.com, NYMag.com, and more.

My first book is HYSTERICAL, published by Hachette, and it was a semi-finalist for The 23rd Thurber House Prize for American Humor.

Before moving to Brooklyn, I produced and co-hosted Literary Death Match in San Francisco and was the editor of various impressive books. I have since gone on to be a barista.

Currently I teach humor and satire writing, funny personal essays, and tragicomic memoir at The New School, 92NY, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and elsewhere.

Cheryl Strayed told me to “write like a motherfucker.”

You live in New York; have you been a background actor on 30 Rock?

Yes! Here’s a photo my friend took of me on her TV with her phone.

Do you have an opinion about what makes a great student?

Someone who believes humor writing will help her find love. (More qualities here.)

Who took all your author photos?

Celebrity photographer Mindy Tucker.