Miriam Jayaratna, Amanda Lehr, and Jenny Kroik

Miriam Jayaratna is a clinical psychologist and humor writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, McSweeney’s, Reductress, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Miriam writes comedy because Freud said humor is the best coping mechanism, once you’ve blown through all your cocaine. Amanda Lehr is a writer and educator based in Brooklyn. Her essays and humor pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She holds a PhD in English and Gender Studies from Vanderbilt University, where her work concerned medicinal cannibalism, the history of dissection, and other pleasant dinner conversation topics. Jenny Kroik is an illustrator living and working in New York City. She has created three covers as well as numerous cartoons and illustrated stories for The New Yorker. Her recent clients include HBO, The Washington Post, The LA Times, Penguin Random House, Time Magazine, The Paris Review, Penn Gazette, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Air Mail, and more.