Evelyn C. Dahab

Evelyn C. Dahab lives in New York City's vibrant East Village after 8 years of living alone on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Born and raised on the south shore of Long Island, she left home at the age of fifteen to live for a year as an exchange student in Ecuador. Upon returning to the United States, she spent a year reorienting to American culture and language before heading to university at the age of seventeen. Her experiences in Ecuador inspired her field of study, and she graduated in 2002 from Columbia University's Barnard College with a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in Third World Political Development.

Since graduation, Ms. Dahab's career has exposed her to many life experiences, perspectives, and disciplines. She has worked as a nanny, personal trainer, fitness model, hedge fund administrator, legal recruiter, financial news show anchorwoman, wine and food critic and consultant under the moniker "oenogal," and actress with a walk-on role on the CBS soap opera The Guiding Light.

Currently, Ms. Dahab co-owns "Lucey's Lounge," a cocktail bar that will open on March 9, 2012 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. Her real passion, though, is travel, and her passport, nearly in tatters, reflects a life on the move. Writing keeps her grounded when wanderlust pulls at her roots.

INCAPITATED is the first book of a memoir trilogy, which she hopes will serve as a revealing commentary on the human experience while casting a dark shadow on the pursuit of sex, power, money, and control.