Zan Romanoff was born and raised in Los Angeles, fifteen miles (at least an hour in traffic) from the ocean. She received a B.A. in Literature from Yale, then returned to LA, where she lives in an apartment that never has quite enough shelves for all of her books. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The Paris Review Daily to The Toast. She blogs at zanopticon.tumblr.com, and you can learn more about her at zanromanoff.com.