Maeve Higgins

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 in New York, she cohosts Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk, both the podcast and the TV show on National Geographic, and has appeared on Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and on WNYC’s 2 Dope Queens. 

Maeve Higgins was already a bestselling author and comedian in Ireland when, at the grand age of thirty-one, she left the only home she’d ever known in search of something more. Several years on, these essays form a smart, warm and revealing story of how Maeve found herself, literally and figuratively, in New York City. Here are stories of learning to live with yourself while youʼre still figuring out how to love yourself, of not being able to afford a dress for the ball and of the true significance of realising what sort of shelter dog you would be. Self-aware and full of her signature banter, Maeve in America is also a fearless exploration of some of todayʼs most urgent concerns: identity, migration, politics and activism. @maevehiggins

Her collection of personal essays ‘Maeve in America’ was first published by Penguin in the US in 2018 and the Irish/UK edition was published in 2020 by New Island.