Laura Nathan-Garner was the managing editor and later editor-in-chief of InTheFray.org from the fall of 2003 to April 2008. (Back then and up until December 2009, she was just Laura Nathan.) She now works as a freelance writer, editor, and Web consultant; blogs for True/Slant; and is the Blog Managing Editor at Psych Central. She has written for publications such as Redbook , Cooking Light, The Writer's Chronicle, and Photo District News, and is the author of Insiders' Guide to Houston (Globe Pequot Press, 2009) and Day Trips from Houston, 13th edition (Globe Pequot Press, summer 2010). Laura holds an M.F.A. in writing and literature from Bennington College, where she specialized in literary nonfiction. She received an M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at Austin. A native Texan who by some strange stroke of luck finds herself in Buffalo, New York, Laura is constantly adding to her ever-growing list of books to read, meals to cook, and places to visit.