Elise Levine is the author of Dri­ving Men Mad Requests and Ded­i­ca­tions and Blue Field. Orig­i­nal­ly from Toron­to she lived in Chicago’s Hyde Park for eleven years and now resides in Bal­ti­more where she directs the MA in Writ­ing pro­gram at Johns Hop­kins. She has taught at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ty worked as a secu­ri­ty guard with guard dogs and a deliv­ery van driver.