Maeve Higgins is a contributing writer for The New York Times and the host of the hit podcast Maeve in America: Immigration IRL. She is a comedian who has performed all over the world, including in her native Ireland, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Erbil. Now based in New York, she cohosts Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk, both the podcast and the TV show on National Geographic, and has also appeared on Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer and on WNYC's 2 Dope Queens.
