Essays and poems about artist life and the politics of being a woman
Musician, writer, teacher, knitter, and middling-to-poor sewist. I love to annoy my dog.
What it means to be a woman in the world making slow, chewy art
A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dearโfrom the poet, not the dame
Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.
Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)
Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.