Candace Cunard
From a young age, my career goals have destined me for poverty. I'm not actually sure whether being an English professor or being a novelist pays worse, but I hope to someday be in a position to find out. Should neither of these dreams come to be, my back-up plan involves roaming through Europe as a tour-guide-in-training, seeing the sights, eating the food, learning the languages, and climbing really tall things. I also blog at Austen and Aliens about the myriad intersections between English academia and today's more popular fictive media.
Danica
I read everywhere, but especially while stopped at traffic lights. I am always hot on the heels of the perfect book, one that combines exquisite language, dizzying plot twists, and characters that make me forget the paper they're living on. In my spare time, I contemplate the idea of becoming a legal eagle for disadvantaged populaces, among others who can't afford to be turned upside down and have the dimes shaken from their pockets. I believe in feminism and liberal politics, which sometimes infiltrates my readings of books, resulting in shattered crockery and/or bleary, head-pounding hangovers. In elementary school, I won a fiction contest with a story about unicorns. Form your expectations accordingly.
Rebecca Wells
The pertinent details are these: I currently work in a less-glamorous side of publishing known as the university press. I read more than the average person, and believe it is a shocking tragedy that so many people (including otherwise well-educated and successful ones) simply don't read. My chief ambition/dream/plan-to-take-over-the-world is to make a living as a novelist (although how world domination follows from this plan is not yet clear). I blog here and at Elephants On Trapezes about books, reading, writing, and occasionally the simple absurdity of it all.
