Skye C. Cleary PhD MBA is a philosopher and author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (SMP | Ebury | Ten Have), Existentialism and the Authentic Life, Existentialism and Romantic Love, and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life.

Skye teaches at Columbia University and previously at the City College of New York, Barnard College, the New York Public Library, and with incarcerated students. She is also a Thinking Partner with Philosophy at Work and a PEN America Writers in the Schools volunteer in the Bronx.

She was a MacDowell Fellow (2021), awarded the Stanford Calderwood Fellowship (2021), a New Philosopher magazine Writers’ Award (2017), and a New York State Assembly Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Community Outreach and Professional Empowerment (2023).

She is former Editor-in-Chief of the American Philosophical Association’s Blog and a certified fellow with the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. Before philosophy,  she was an international equity arbitrageur, management consultant, and Lieutenant in the Australian Army Reserves.

Her work has been published with The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Aeon, The Times Literary Supplement, TED-Ed, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Independent, The Conversation, Business Insider, New Republic, and others. A selection of her writing can be found here.

Born and raised in Sydney, Skye now lives in New York City with her partner, son, and two rescue bunnies. She is also a DJ.

For literary inquiries, contact Curious Minds Literary Agency.

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