My "official" name is Kathryn, but I go by Kakie (pronounced "khaki"). Grew up in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas again. I have a B.A. in Religion from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. And no, I had no plans to become a priest. My own existential/spiritual crisis begat a morbid fascination in the subject. I studied a little bit of everything and consider myself liberal arts to the core (perhaps a euphemism for ADHD with a soupçon of commitment phobia). Counterintuitively, I manage a research center at Vanderbilt University, which allows me the opportunity to write a plethora of dry and boring science-related minutiae. For some strange reason I enjoy it. I have just enough of a science background to be dangerous, but my passion has always been writing, especially poetry. I am somewhat renowned (in my own mind) for my silly sonnets that I will happily write upon request. I would speak in limericks if it were socially acceptable.