Samantha Irby

Essayist and New York Times Best Selling Author

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Chicago, IL, USA
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Samantha Irby Biography

Samantha Irby is an essayist, blogger, and a New York Times best-selling author.

Irby maintains a popular blog, Bitches Gotta Eat. As well, she is author of a memoir titled, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. In this collection of essays, Irby offers poignant insight into universal topics like blackness, body image, poverty and failed relationships. Her first memoir, Meaty, is being developed into a TV series on FX, and will be helmed by the executive producer of Comedy Central hit Inside Amy Schumer.

Irby also does live readings and performances. She has opened for Baratunde Thurston during his "How to Be Black" tour, and she co-hosts Guts & Glory, a reading series featuring essayists, which perform all over Chicago.

She has been profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, as well as in TimeOut Chicago, and her work has appeared on The Rumpus and Jezebel.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/21/2024.

Samantha Irby Videos

  • Samantha Irby in Conversation with Entertainment Weekly's David Canfield
    The author dubbed a “sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations” by The New York Times is back with the biting new collection, Wow,...
  • National Writers Series: Samantha Irby - YouTube
    The National Writers Series welcomes Samantha Irby to discuss her book "Meaty. " Guest hosted by Elon Cameron. From City Opera House in ...
  • Samantha Irby with Lindy West: Meaty Essays | Town Hall Seattle ...
    Writer Samantha Irby is known for her brazen wit and boldly honest feminist writing from her blog bitches gotta eat, as well as her book We Are ...

Samantha Irby Books

  • Quietly Hostile: Essays
    Quietly Hostile: Essays
  • Wow No Thank You
    Wow No Thank You
  • Meaty: Essays
    Meaty: Essays
  • We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
    We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
  • New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (A Vintage Short)
    New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (A Vintage Short)

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Samantha Irby is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Samantha Irby for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Samantha Irby generally travels from Chicago, IL, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ijeoma Oluo, Elaine Welteroth, Ellen McGirt, Sonia Sanchez and Iyanla Vanzant. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Samantha Irby for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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