Trinity College

Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (Riverhead Books, 2008), How Did You Get This Number (Riverhead Books, 2010) and the e-book Up The Down Volcano (2011). She served as editor of The Best American Travel Writing series (Mariner Books, 2011) and has contributed to a variety of anthologies. She is featured in The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) and The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2011). I Was Told There’d Be Cake was a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor. Sloane's debut novel, The Clasp (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), is a comedy of manners about three estranged friends and one famous short story. Sloane has been a guest lecturer at various colleges and universities including New York University and Columbia University’s Publishing Course. In 2013, she taught in Columbia University's MFA program. Sloane's work has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Bon Appetit, Playb