Heather Havrilesky

[6][2] In 1996, Havrilesky was hired as a staff writer at Suck.com, a webzine that was one of the web's earliest ad-supported content sites.

Together with artist Terry Colon, she wrote the popular "Filler" comic strip for the site under the pen name Polly Esther.

[12] Havrilesky exited that position soon after the app launched,[13] and the site was shuttered by its parent News Corporation in December 2012.

[16] Havrilesky's first book, Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir (2010),[17] is an autobiographical work, it dealt mostly with her upbringing in Durham, North Carolina.

[20] Erin Keane of Salon.com summarized the book as follows: "Havrilesky peels back the layers of late-capitalism malaise that bind us to the promise of some better version of ourselves lurking just beyond our reach, and dares us instead to accept our current, flawed lives, suffering and all, in order to settle into a less anxious and resentful present.