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Haley Swanson
About
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Haley Swanson
About
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Reported Features

I Went to a Party All About Sexual Desire and Here’s What Happened
Glamour (Selected)

At 28, Amanda de Cadenet Was Motorbiking With Keanu Reeves
Bustle 

Essays

Fantasma
PANK

How Time Works
Creative Nonfiction

I Had to Practice Saying I Was Raped. Now I Have to Practice Saying I Have PTSD
Glamour (Selected)

What I Was Doing While You Were Reading Eat Pray Love
Electric Literature

The Mirror of Erised: On Death, Harry Potter, and Retreating to Childhood Reads
The Millions​

I Wanted to Be Sure to Reach You
The Rumpus

Craft

Against Writing
Essay Daily

It Hurts to Go Home: Writing What Doesn't Belong Only to You
Brevity 

​Podcasts & Readings

Plot Twist
Generation Women

Travel Writing is Bad
Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin

“The pieces are testaments to the hard-won freedoms of the sexual revolution that Brown both stirred and stymied.”
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic

Praise for
Sex and the Single Woman

“I just loved reading through these essays.”
— Jasmine Guillory, The Today Show
“A wide-ranging, life-affirming collection.”
— Booklist
“Essential reading.”
— Emma Gray, Host of "Love To See It" and author of A Girl's Guide To Joining The Resistance
“A refreshing and relevant update to a classic.”
— Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and I Came All This Way to Meet You
“Truly a celebration of sexually liberated women—of all backgrounds, ages, and orientations.”
— Sari Botton, New York Times bestselling editor of Goodbye to All That and author of And You May Find Yourself...

Purchase SSW:

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Bookshop.org
Books-a-Million
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Classes

6-Week Advanced Nonfiction Workshop: Speculative Nonfiction
July 9 through August 13
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Apply here.

Contact

Literary agent:
Sarah Burnes, sburnes [at] thegernertco [dot] com.

Sex and the Single Woman publicity inquires:
Heather Drucker, heather [dot] drucker [at] harpercollins [dot] com.

All other inquires: 
haleyannaswanson [at] gmail [dot] com.