Pat Colander is a writer, editor, teacher, and publisher who grew up on the south side of Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois. In 2011, she received an MS in technology from Purdue. She has written three books and contributed to one. Her favorite writers are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, James McBride, Hilary Mantel, Alina Bronsky and Roger Ebert. She lives in Gary, Indiana with her husband Jeff.