bio
Mandy Len Catron is the author of the critically-acclaimed essay collection How to Fall in Love with Anyone. The book was listed for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize and the Kobo Emerging Writer Award. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Rumpus, Catapult, and The Walrus as well as other newspapers, literary journals, and anthologies. Her essays and talks have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Mandy’s article “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This” remains one of the most read Modern Love columns of all time. You can find her two TEDx talks at TED.com. She’s currently writing about loneliness and social connection, which you can read more about in her newsletter. Originally from Appalachian Virginia, she now lives on unceded Musqueam land in Vancouver and is a faculty member in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
book
“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir.”
—The Los Angeles Review of Books
“It’s hard to imagine a more timely endeavour. Clear-eyed and full of heart, How to Fall in Love With Anyone is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship.”
-The Toronto Star
“In our age of total romantic confusion, Mandy Len Catron is a voice of good sense, warm humor and consoling wisdom. Through the lense of her own relationships, she teaches us—with a deft, convincing intelligence—some of the vital moves in the art of love.”
— Alain de Botton
Selected interviews:
NPR’s Life Kit: “What Makes a Good Partner?”
NPR’s TED Radio Hour: “In and Out of Love”
CBS This Morning: “Is Marriage All It’s Cracked Up To Be”
NPR Weekend Edition: “The Call In: Questions about Making Your Relationship Last”
The Washington Post: “Mandy Len Catron’s book about love picks up where those 36 questions left off”
@Google Talks: Mandy Len Catron: “How to Fall in Love with Anyone”
Salon: WATCH: Is there a formula to falling in love with anyone?
CBC Books: “Why Mandy Len Catron wrote a book that tries to understand modern love”
Hazlitt: “‘Heartbreak is Pedestrian, Even Though It Feels Profound’: An Interview with Mandy Len Catron”
CBS This Morning: “‘How to Fall in Love with Anyone’ author on the art of intimacy”
The Boston Globe: “So Can You Fall in Love with Anyone”
Why oh Why Radio: “#41 Can you fall in love with anyone?”
CBC’s The Next Chapter: “How Mandy Len Catron used science to tell her love story”
The Telegraph: “Can 36 questions make you fall–and stay–in love with anyone”
The Guardian Australia: “We Have Worked Hard for This Moment: Four Feminists Discuss #metoo”
Le Monde: “Le succès inattendu d’un questionnaire de deux chercheurs « pour tomber amoureux »”
Other press:
Publisher’s Weekly: Cover Story: ‘How to Fall in Love with Anyone’