Katie Heaney

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Katie Heaney
Born1986 (age 37–38)
Minnesota, United States
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Katie Heaney (born 1986) is an author and former BuzzFeed editor and senior writer for The Cut . [1] Her books include Never Have I Ever,Dear Emma,Would You Rather?, Girl Crushed, and The Year I Stopped Trying.

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Career

Heaney's first book, written while she was working as an editor at BuzzFeed, was Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date, published in 2014. The memoir chronicles her life up til age 25 and recounts how she had not, before that point, had a boyfriend. [2] [3] In 2016, Heaney's modernization of Jane Austen's Emma was published. [4] [5] In 2018, Heaney published a second memoir, Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out. Would You Rather? deals with Heaney's path to coming out and realizing her sexuality. [6] Her first YA novel, Girl Crushed, was published in 2020. [7] Her second YA novel, The Year I Stopped Trying, was published in 2021. [8] In 2021, Heaney published a controversial article in the Cut titled, "The Memory War." [9] Shortly after, fellow journalist Carrie Poppy released a series of letters to the editor on Medium, including one from memory expert Elizabeth Loftus, demonstrating a large number of factual and contextual errors committed by Heaney in her recount of statements made by her interviewees and her summary of memory research. [10]

Personal life

Heaney was born and raised in St. Paul and Shoreview, Minnesota. [11] She came out as gay at age 28 in 2015. [12] From 2019 to 2023, Heaney was married to Lydia Jackson. [13] [1] [14] [15] She now lives in Los Angeles. [6]

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  2. ↑ Waldman, Katy (2014-02-04). "Books: Like, Ever". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
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  15. ↑ https://www.twitter.com/KTHeaney/status/1622732062737465344
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