Lindsey Grant is the former Program Director for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a nonprofit organization that encourages writers of all ages and backgrounds to pen the draft of a novel during the month of November. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and English from Mills College in Oakland, California. Though she lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for nine glorious, sun-drenched years, she originally hails from Atlanta, Georgia. You'd know she's a Southerner at heart by her liberal use of the word "y'all" and her belief in casseroles as a form of damage control. She currently lives in Zurich, Switzerland with her husband and their cats, where she cooks often, tries to speak German, and blogs about her attempts to assimilate.