Adrianne DeWeese is a twentysomething full-time media analyst and part-time bookseller in the Kansas City area. She previously worked full time as a journalist at the Leavenworth Times (KS) and the Independence Examiner (MO). Her freelance work has appeared in Kansas City's weekly alternative publication, The Pitch. Outside of reading and writing, she enjoys playing clarinet in the Overland Park Civic Band and volunteering as a literacy mentor for Pages & Chapters. Her three aspirations in life remain consistent, unchanged: Write and publish a novel; earn a master's degree; and run competitively again like she did in her high school years.