Tracy McArdle Brady is a published novelist, essayist, screenwriter and communications executive from Boston. She is the 2020 recipient of The Erma Bombeck | Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence Program, a writing residency specifically for emerging humor writers. Her writing has appeared in Fortune, Adweek, The Boston Globe Magazine, Muse by Clio, Skirt, The Carlisle Mosquito, the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette and on her humor blog, FestivalofNeed.com.
Her novels Confessions of a Nervous Shiksa and Real Women Eat Beef, (Simon & Schuster’s Downtown Press) remain widely unread and critically unacclaimed. One of her stories was also included in the Downtown Press anthology In One Year and Out the Other.