Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed is the author of  the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Wild, the New York Times bestseller Tiny Beautiful Things, and the novel Torch.

Wild was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. Jean-Marc Vallée is directing the film adaptation of Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby. The film is being produced by Pacific Standard and will be distributed by Fox Searchlight in 2014. Wild was selected as the winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the Indie Choice Award, an Oregon Book Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award.

Strayed's writing has appeared in The Best American Essays, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, The Missouri Review, The Sun, The Rumpus--where she has written the popular "Dear Sugar" column since 2010--and elsewhere. Strayed was the guest editor of Best American Essays 2013 and has contributed to many anthologies.

Her books have been translated into thirty languages around the world.

She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota.

She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their two children.