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Katie Heaney is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter from Minnesota, living in Los Angeles.
ABOUT
Katie Heaney is the author of six books, including the young adult novels The Year I Stopped Trying, Girl Crushed, and Dear Emma, the memoirs Never Have I Ever and Would You Rather?, and Public Relations, a romantic comedy, co-written with Arianna Rebolini. She has also written extensively for The Cut, the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, and more. In 2022, she was selected as an Outfest Screenwriting Lab Fellow for her feature script, My Ex-Wife’s Wedding.
RECENT WORK
BOOKS
The Year I Stopped Trying
Mary is having an existential crisis. She’s a good student, she never gets in trouble, and she is searching for the meaning of life. In a starred review, the School Library Journal called The Year I Stopped Trying “a must for all collections.”
Would You Rather?
A collection of poignant, relatable essays from the author of Never Have I Ever about coming out in her late twenties, entering into her first relationship, and figuring out what it means to be an adult.
Dear Emma
Harriet, the author of her college newspaper’s pseudonymous student advice column “Dear Emma,” is great at telling others what to do, dispensing wisdom for the lovelorn and lonely on her Midwestern campus. Somehow, though, she can’t take her own advice.
Girl Crushed
Leah on the Offbeat meets We Are Okay in this pitch-perfect queer romance about falling in love — and never quite falling out of it — that Kirkus called “fresh and charming.”
Public Relations
with Arianna Rebolini
A smart and charming romantic comedy about a popstar and the publicist pulling his strings that Kirkus calls a “Cinderella for the modern age.”
Never Have I Ever:
My Life (So Far) Without a Date
Funny, relatable, and inspiring, this is a memoir for anyone who has ever struggled to find love, but has also had a lot of fun in the process.
CONTACT
Literary Agent
Allison Hunter, Trellis Literary Management
ahunter@trellisliterary.com
Film/TV Agent
Mary Pender, WME
mpender@wmeagency.com