Ada Calhoun is the New York Times best-selling author of five books, most recently the 2025 book Crush: A Novel, hailed on the Today show and praised by the Washington Post for its "whirlwind of desire and possibility." Her memoir Also a Poet the New York Times called “a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul." Past books include Why We Can't Sleep, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and St. Marks Is Dead.
Ada has also written personal essays for O, Real Simple, Redbook, Glamour, as well as three Modern Love columns and four New York Times Magazine Lives columns. Ada has not only written critically acclaimed memoirs of her own—she has also helped countless other memoirists as a celebrity ghostwriter and workshop leader across the country.