Featured Session: Liz Tigelaar & Cheryl Strayed on Tiny Beautiful Things

Part of SXSW 2023

This event took place on Monday, March 13, 2023 at 2:30 PM UTC.

Venue: Austin Convention Center, Room 16AB. Liz Tigelaar is creator, showrunner and executive producer of the upcoming Hulu series "Tiny Beautiful Things” -- based on the book by Cheryl Strayed and starring Kathryn Hahn. Prior to that, she was the creator and showrunner of the Hulu limited series “Little Fires Everywhere.” She got her writing start on NBC’s groundbreaking drama “American Dreams,” and created the critically acclaimed series “Life Unexpected.” She recently adapted the bestselling Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” as a feature for Netflix. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than 4 million copies and was made into an Oscar-nominated film. Her bestselling book Tiny Beautiful Things has been adapted for a Hulu television show that will ll be released April 7, 2023 on Hulu. Strayed is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Torch, and the collection Brave Enough. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. She lives in Portland, Oregon.