Sara Eckel is the author of It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single (TarcherPerigee). Based on one of the most popular New York Times Modern Love essays in the column’s history, It’s Not You has been published in 10 languages and has a 4.6-star reader rating on Amazon.

Sara’s essays, arts criticism and reported pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, The BBC, The Boston Globe Magazine, Psychology Today, Bookforum, Lion’s Roar, Time Out New York, Glamour, Self, Martha Stewart Living and many other publications. Her short fiction has been published in Speakeasy and Sanskrit.

Sara has taught essay-writing at the Writing Pad, and her free online writing class is available on Skillshare.

She lives in Kingston, New York, with her husband, Mark, and their dog, Polly.

You can reach her at saraeckel [at] gmail [dot] com.