Heather Havrilesky

Bio

Heather Havrilesky writes the popular Ask Polly advice columnist on Substack. She is also the author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), the essay collection What If This Were Enough (2018), the advice book How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and the memoir Disaster Preparedness (2010). She maintains the Ask Molly newsletter, written by Polly’s evil twin, and has written for Bookforum, The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other publications. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.