Nancy Woo, or “Nancewad” or “Pants” or “Wooster” (and on and on), is a Californian, born and raised, though “dude” is respectably low on her list of regular vocabulary words. She can’t seem to de-magnetize herself from the coast (no complaints) as she grew up in the suburbs of Huntington Beach, went to college in the forests of Santa Cruz and is now living by the harbor in Long Beach. She studied Sociology, Literature and Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz with no tangible translation into any particular career, so she spends most of her time reading, writing, freelancing in the world of journalism, tutoring writing, running, practicing yoga, attending live music and theater shows and generally living like sort of a bohemian.