Patricia Grisafi, PhD, is a freelance writer, editor, and educator. She received her BA in English from Skidmore College in 2005 and her PhD in English from Fordham University in 2016. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Vice, Narratively, Catapult, NBC, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City with her husband, son and daughter, and two rescue dogs.