Kathi Reed was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. , brought up in Queens, N.Y.and spent her impressionable years in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.in Westchester County in the days before houses cost the GDP of a small nation. She attended Lasell College in Boston and worked in New York City at The New Yorker Magazine, Time-Life, and Random House. After years of experimenting with alternative methods she realized that if she wanted to have a book published, she had to actually write one. She now lives in Cincinnati, OH, a city that she loves, even though she enjoys poking fun at the populace, and vice-versa. Mostly versa.