Elly Lonon, often found Amongst The Liberal Elite herself, is still recovering from growing up in a Red State. Born and raised in North Carolina, she moved to Manhattan for graduate school and to pursue a career in the music business. Weary from consistent marginalization by the patriarchy, she left both the industry and NYC, opting to work for a not-for-profit and moving to the suburbs of Jersey where living near a superfund site promptly gave her cancer. Probably. Well she definitely had Lymphoma, though the actual cause of the cancer was less definite. When her oncologist suggested learning a new language to help recover from chemo brain, Elly chose to learn HTML which led to the creation of her blog, EllyLonon.com, in April 2009. Online, her writing has been featured at NYTimes.com, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Real Simple, Babble (a Disney property), Scary Mommy, YourTango, and a shocking number of now-defunct sites. Additionally, her work has appeared in print in O Magazine and several anthologies. She really, really hates writing in the third person.