Heather is a wife, mother, and non-traditional college student, currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in social work. She loves to learn, is a writing tutor, a workaholic, and is intensely devoted to the NaNoWriMo community. She joined as staff in 2008, has beaten founder Chris Baty in a word war, and has approximately 14 unfinished NaNo drafts in her “writing” folder on Google Drive.