Sacha Z. Scoblic is a writer and editor. She is the author ofUnwasted: My Lush Sobriety, which is based on her popular essays for The New York Times blog “Proof: Alcohol and American Life.” Currently, Sacha is a Rosalynn Carter fellow for mental health journalism through the Carter Center in Atlanta. Among other things, she writes about mental health, addiction, and pop fiction.

Sacha is a columnist at The Fix, a frequent contributor toThe Huffington Post  and a contributing editor at The New Republic.

Sacha lives with her husband, Peter; son, Theodore; and terrier, SciFi, in Washington, DC.