Diana Spechler is the author of Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011). She has written for the New York Times; GQ;O, The Oprah Magazine; CNN Living; Esquire; New York Magazine and elsewhere. She is a six-time Moth Story SLAM winner and has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth podcast, and NPR. She received her MFA degree from the University of Montana and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University and the writer-in-residence at Portsmouth Abbey School.