Meet Sasha

Hi! I’m Sasha. I believe we shine most when we accept ourselves.

I have always been a writer. I started writing in college when my friend and I cowrote a zine called Cupsize and I interned at the Village Voice.

Throughout my career I have done many things. The thread that runs through them is that I almost always follow my intuitive passions and curiosities. I’m deeply interested in the little details and stories that make us unique and the healing power of being real.

I’m a fan of this quote from Dorothy Parker: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

My two books (so far) are Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics (Harper One) and To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (Simon & Schuster). My essays have appeared in the Village Voice, Utne, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 x 7, and numerous anthologies.

I’m currently at work on a memoir about the year in which I completely changed my life by leaving my life in Silicon Valley to travel alone in South America. Stay tuned, this will be a juicy book! Sign up for my mailing list to stay on top of publication developments.

I’m a connoisseur of the quirky in all of us. I’ve combined my lifelong research into quirkyness with my training as a life coach to create Get Quirky, an online course to help you celebrate the quirky in you. I believe when we get playfully quirky, we automatically become more self-accepting, creative, and connected with others.

When I was in my mid-twenties, I wrote a 700-word essay coining a new word called “quirkyalone.” That essay got such a strong reaction from people that I decided to write a book. And start a holiday. And a movement. A “quirkyalone” is a person who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) and prefers being single to dating for the sake of being in a relationship.

International Quirkyalone Day (Feb. 14) is a growing alternative to Valentine’s Day that celebrates all forms of love, that has grown into a celebration spanning more than 40 cities. On IQD, everyone-single or coupled–is invited to celebrate themselves and their relationships.

My work as a writer and community-builder has been featured by more than 100 national outlets, including CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NPR, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and USA Today.

tango love

In 2010, I discovered that I have celiac disease, which means I am strictly gluten-free for life. I hope to see a day when researchers come up for a cure for this autoimmune disease that affects 1 in 133 Americans. Until there’s a cure, I advocate for the to FDA pass and enforce adequate U.S. gluten labeling laws on our foods and work to spread awareness about celiac disease. .

My StyleMob co-founder and me

I love to see the world from different angles. I love absorbing languages and cultures. I speak French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

I was born and raised in the biggest little state in the union Rhode Island and have spent most of my adult life in the Bay Area. I currently split time between Buenos Aires and Oakland.

To get to know more about me me and my work, check out these links:
–A recent hourlong NPR interview about changing ideas of being single and romantic relationships, aka quirkyalone and quirkytogether
–My authors@google talk on what our to-do lists reveal about us
–Me chatting with Anderson Cooper
–My online course GetQuirky; with every session we create a community of people who have the intention of becoming more themselves, owning and celebrating the quirky in them
–My original quirkyalone essay
–The moment in time when I decided to give a tango show in Cali, Colombia when I really did not know tango yet (I had only been dancing tango six weeks!)
–The blog post “The big life churn” which I wrote before following a random instinct to travel for an extended period of time in Brazil. I’m currently writing a book about everything I learned and experienced in my solo travels in South America and then how I continued traveling through my own life back in the Bay Area when I returned.

If you would like to up the level of quirkyness in your life, here are five ways you can do that with me:
Go Forth and GetQuirky, online course and community
Lady Q Coaching
Quirkysensual travel adventures
Sign up for my mailing list for weekly inspiration
Read my books Quirkyalone and To-Do List!

Contact

I will happily receive your email at sasha at sashacagen.com.

You can also find me here:

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My literary agent is Jill Grinberg.

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