Chris Daley is the director of Writing Workshops Los Angeles and she teaches academic writing at the California Institute of Technology. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, FORTH Magazine, Angels Flight "¢ literary west, The Collagist, DUM DUM Zine, Cease, Cows, Front Porch Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction. She has a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center.