Sloane Crosley is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number, as well as Look Alive Out There and the bestselling novel, The Clasp. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine and on NPR. She was the inaugural columnist for the New York Times op-ed "Townies" series, a contributing editor at Interview Magazine and Vanity Fair and a columnist for the Village Voice and New York Observer. She lives in Manhattan.