Writers@Grinnell: Samantha Irby

Comedian, author, and television writer, Samantha Irby, will read from her work and discuss writing on Thursday, September 20 as part of the Writers@Grinnell series at Grinnell College. The event, which is free and open to the public, will start at 8 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, (JRC) Room 101.

In addition, Irby will lead a roundtable discussion which is free and open to the public at 4:15 p.m. in Rosenfield Center, Room 209.

Samantha Irby is an American comedian, author, and television writer. She runs the blog bitches gotta eat, where she writes posts about her personal life and events. Irby also co-hosted the live lit show Guts and Glory in Chicago with Keith Ecker until 2015, when the show ended its run. In 2016 FX announced that they had purchased the television rights to Irby's 2013 memoir Meaty and her blog, with the intent to adapt them into a series.