Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and features reporter for The Boston Globe . She's been writing her column," Love Letters" -- a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn -- since 2009. In 2018, she'll release two books: Can't Help Myself: Lessons & Confessions from a Modern Advice Columnist , a memoir (Grand Central/Hachette/April 3), and Chemistry Lessons (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/June 19), a young adult novel about a woman who tries to use science to manipulate her love life. Meredith's debut novel, The Singles -- about the only dateless guests at a wedding -- was released in 2012. Meredith was born in New Jersey, raised in Maryland, and lives in Boston with a carnival-size cotton candy machine and a David Bowie doll. Visit her at www.MeredithGoldstein.com and on Twitter at @MeredithGoldste.