About:

Elizabeth Ball is thrilled to be back on her home planet of California, where she is pleased to discover that vintage movie theaters and good burritos are not, in fact, figments of her imagination. A bad liar but an excellent maker-upper, she added short stories to the margins of her coloring books and hand-wrote a novella in her seventh-grade school notebook. Sensing a theme, she majored in Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, where she learned to ignore the rain and love clear writing.  She has since been a baker, a daycare teacher, a writer of industrial safety films, a newspaper reporter, a film critic, a book-publishing goon, a development intern for TV and film, and a materials writer (slash international spy) for the U.S. Department of State. She loves sad comedies and funny dramas, thinks "genre" shouldn't be a dirty word, and wishes everybody everywhere spoke like characters in His Girl Friday.

She currently writes on a freelance basis for the page and the screen, as well as for the website Austenacious and the pop culture blog P.S. BTW. For more of her exploits in writing and living, see her personal blog, Read in Reverse.