Author's Background

Family Highlights

• Born in Rutherford County, North Carolina

• Ten Children in the Roach Family

Education

• Bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University

Career

• Author for Stiff  and Spook

• Columnist in  Outside, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She writes the humor column "My Planet" in Reader's Digest and is a contributing editor for the science magazine Discover

• Hobbies include flatulence, Eskimo food, vaginal weight-lifting, carrot addiction, amputee bowling leagues, and the question of how much food it takes to burst a human stomach.