Heather Havrilesky grew up in Durham, N.C., and graduated from Duke University. In 1996, she and illustrator Terry Colon created “Filler,” a popular cartoon that ran for five years on Suck.com, one of the Web’s first pop culture magazines. She’s written for the LA Times, the Washington Post, New York, Spin, BookForum and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She is currently a TV critic for Salon.com and maintains the Rabbit Blog. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Bill and their two dogs.