i have been writing online in one form or another since 1999 (that’s longer than you and way before the word ‘blog’ existed). i am your average overly educated artistically inclined white girl with little faux-artsy glasses. i’m the godless liberal your mother warned you about, but without the pseudo-intellectual assholery you will find in 57% of articles in the New York Times. i, too, can throw around my MFA like no one’s business. born in 1980, i am mercifully out of step with my generation. i do not suffer fools gladly.

if you wish to contact me, it’s thatgirl at ladypilot dot org.

*M. Ravian comes from a street sign on Broad Street in Philadelphia. it was one of those street names tacked directly onto a building in respectable Times New Roman capitals. it was Moravian Street, but the O was missing.