Facebook Live with Amy Dresner

When:
April 1, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm America/New York Timezone
2019-04-01T18:00:00-04:00
2019-04-01T19:00:00-04:00

Join us over in the secret Reinvent Your Wheels Facebook group live on Monday, April 1, 2019 (TIME TBD). Laura Ward will talk with Amy Dresner, author of My Fair Junkie and writer for theFix.com, about why ugly honesty and vulnerability are good for you.

Amy Dresner is a former comedian as well as a recovering addict/alcoholic and epic fuck up. She’s been a writer for the addiction/recovery magazine theFix.com since 2012 and freelanced for Addiction.com, Psychology Today, After Party Chat, Good Men Project, Refinery 29 among others.. Her first book, My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, was released by Hachette in 2017 to rave reviews by critics and readers alike. She’s appeared on the television show The Doctors as well as been a guest on Dr. Drew, Don’t Die, Lighthustler, Dopey Nation, and many others podcasts and radio shows. She was a speaker at the SHE RECOVERS LA Gala in 2018, receiving a standing ovation. Elle magazine compared her memoir, My Fair Junkie, to Carrie Fisher’s 1987 autobiographical novel, Postcards from the Edge, and Mary Karr’s 2009 Lit, calling it “one for the ages.” Her book is currently in development for a TV series.