Maeve Higgins is a contributing writer for The New York Times and the host of the hit podcast Maeve in America: Immigration IRL. She is a comedian who has performed all over the world, including in her native Ireland, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Erbil. Now based here in New York, she cohosts Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk, and has appeared on Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and on WNYC’s 2 Dope Queens. Her book Maeve in America was published by Penguin Books this summer, and has been featured in People, Parade, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, and more.
