Marion Stein is a native New Yorker who returned to her hometown in September 2001 after living many other places. She has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence as well as an MSW from Hunter College. Marion's careers have included crisis clinician, teacher, tarot card reader, grant writer and temp. She is an avid blogger and the author of The Death Trip and Loisaida -- A New York Story.  She is currently working on an expansion of her novella, Hungry Ghosts which was shortlisted for the 32nd annual 3-Day Novel Contest.