Maeve Dunigan is a writer originally from Baltimore, MD, now based in Brooklyn, NY. Her debut satire and essay collection, Read This To Look Cool, is out May 12, 2026 from Sourcebooks.

She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Reductress, Mountain Gazette, Mic, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She’s also, quite proudly, an Abolish Everything world champion.

Maeve co-hosts Some Fun Lines, a monthly open mic and quarterly show dedicated to prose humor. She’s half of the musical sketch duo Pigeon, of Pigeon Presents, a comedy variety show that’s been featured in TimeOut New York. 

Maeve would love to be a beekeeper one day, but she doesn’t have the space for it right now.