Alison Leiby is a two-time WGA Award–nominated writer. She has written for Life & Beth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and The President Show, and was a writer and executive producer for Ilana Glazer’s Comedy on Earth for Comedy Central. Her critically acclaimed solo show Oh God, A Show About Abortion, which ran at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, was named the Best Political Comedy of the year by The New York Times. Alison’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, McSweeney’s, Vice, The Onion, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and many others. Her podcast Ruined has been named one of Time magazine’s top ten podcasts of the year.
In this witty, absurd, and surprisingly moving memoir-in-essays, comedian Alison Leiby unpacks the multitudes women are told to be—and the joy of refusing to pick just one.
