(Dresner, Amy) Amy Dresner is a former professional stand-up comic, having appeared at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and The Improv. Since 2012, she has been a contributing editor of the online addiction and recovery magazine TheFix.com. She’s also written for the Good Men Project, The Frisky, Refinery 29, and has been a regular contributor to Addiction.com and PsychologyToday.com, where she has her own addiction blog entitled “Coming Clean.” Dresner’s first book, My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean (Hachette Books) is a darkly funny and revealing story of her twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.
