Hayley Phelan is a novelist and freelance journalist from Toronto. Her column in the New York Times, Browsing, ran for two years in the paper's Style section, where she continues to contribute. Her journalism, which predominantly focuses on media and how it shapes youth culture, particularly young women, has appeared in Elle, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar The Cut, and the Wall Street Journal. As a humorist, her work has been published online at the New Yorker. She formerly worked as features editor at Condé Nast’s Lucky Magazine, and as online editor of Teen Vogue. She received her MFA from NYU in January 2020. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Her debut novel, LIKE ME, will be published by Doubleday in Canada July 6, 2021 and Lake Union in the U.S. February 2022.