Heather Holland Wheaton is the author of You Are Here, Eight Million Stories in a New York Minute and Wet Paint. Her short stories have appeared in Slipstream, The Morning News, P.I.M. and Everyday Fiction.

To pay the rent, she works as a tour guide on those big double-decker buses that roam the streets of NYC.

And she is now learning to make soap, a skill that she'll soon be incorporating into her writing. Stay tuned for that.