Katie Heaney
Katie Heaney is a former BuzzFeed editor, senior writer for "The Cut," and author. Her books include "Never Have I Ever," "Dear Emma," "Would You Rather?", and "Girl, Crushed." 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. In 2016, Heaney's modernization of Jane Austen's "Emma" was published. 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. Her YA novel, "Girl Crushed", was published in 2020. Personal life. Heaney was born and raised in St. Paul and Shoreview, Minnesota. She came out in Summer 2015 at age 28. Heaney is married to Lydia, on whose high school romances "Girl, Crushed" is loosely based. She now lives in New York.