A sociocultural anthropologist by training and a wordsmith by trade, I live with my husband, my daughter, and my cat in the Mid-Atlantic, which is not at all where I ever expected to be. (Funny, isn’t it, how life goes?) When I’m not trying to theorize class in terms of place or rewriting other people’s manglings of the English language, I knit and read and cook and garden and hike and think and eat and photograph and sing and write and travel and plan and hope and . . .