I just graduated in December with my B.A. in English from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. I am originally from Grinnell, Iowa, and my interests include writing, acting, costume design, poetry, photography, music, and public policy. I have studied abroad in Dublin, Ireland at the Irish Writers Workshop and in Florence, Italy. I am engaged to the love of my life, a middle school theology teacher, and we're getting married in June of 2012. We plan to live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I blog at Favor the Brave.