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Another Piece in The New Yorker
Just in time for the holidays, here’s a short humor piece I wrote about lying to your child. Featured in “Daily Shouts” on Christmas Eve.
A novel… coming in Fall 2021
It’s official. Our two-book deal with Philomel (Penguin/Random House) has been announced in Publisher’s Weekly. Margot Mertz Will Clean Your Filth Margot Mertz Takes It Down ...
The New Yorker
I wrote a humor piece about quarantine that ran in The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts. Is quarantine funny? Not really. But I think having a full ...
Update for 2020
It’s 2020. Here’s what I’ve been working on: Features: My feature Killing Your Daughter, or, Adopted in Danger, premiered on the Lifetime Network last fall during primetime! My second feature ...
Consenta for Comedy Central
Here’s a video I shot for Comedy Central Digital (where I tried to hide that I was five months pregnant!)
Summer 2019 News!
My biggest news is that after years of playing a mom on TV, I finally became one. (Hopefully all the extensive research I did to ...
