Writing Towards Truth: An Interview with Tracy Strauss

by Jessica A. Kent
February 6, 2020

You can’t think of author Tracy Strauss without thinking of the word “resolve.” Her debut memoir, I Just Haven’t Met You Yet: Finding Empowerment in Dating, Love, and Life, that details her search for a life partner while also telling her journey of recovery from childhood trauma, was released last May from Skyhorse Publishing. And for anyone who’s aware of the publishing story of her book, you know the tenacity she’s shown in pushing back against an industry that didn’t want her story out in the world.

Strauss was named one of eight women writers with advice to follow by Bustle (alongside the likes of Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath), and has had writing featured in New York Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Glamour, The Huffington Post, Boston.com, and more. And since she’ll be headlining two new author events next week – just in time for Valentine’s Day – and launching a new workshop at GrubStreet, we met up in Harvard Square to chat about the memoir’s reception and intricate origins, which authors get trauma writing right, and our mutual love of Boston.

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