| Female |
| August 8 |
| Pennsylvania |
| Born and raised in small-town America and a thoroughbred Pennsylvanian. |
| A bit of everything: poetry, fiction, blog, journalism. |
| Dry humor, but frequently serious commentary, and the occasional tragedy. |
| Languages, faith, politics, travel. |
| Classics, freestyle poetry, childhood stories, comedy, tragedy, romance. |
| "Love in the Time of Cholera," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," "Anne of Green Gables," "Pride and Prejudice." |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez, JK Rowling, CS Lewis, LM Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, Jane Austen. |
| Robert Frost |
| "I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it." - Byron |