R. Eric Thomas is a national bestselling author, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for his essay collection Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America (2020), which was featured as a Read with Jenna pick on NBC's Today. He also co-authored Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters with Helena Andrews-Dyer, and authored the YA novel Kings of B’more, a 2023 American Library Association Stonewall Honor book, and the essay collection Congratulations, the Best Is Over!

Thomas has won several awards for his playwriting, including the Barrymore Award for Best New Play, the Dramatist Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. He has written for the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson on AppleTV+ and Better Things on FX.

He also writes the daily, nationally syndicated advice column Asking Eric and sends out a humor newsletter that has been featured on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour.