Randi Hacker has worked as a personal assistant to the stars, publisher, educator, editor, librarian, author and video store clerk. Back in the 20th Century, she was the editor of The Electric Company Magazine published by Children's Television Workshop. Before completing an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, she dropped out of a number of well-respected graduate schools including the University of Michigan, UCLA and Columbia University in New York City. Her Vermont-based sitcom "Windy Acres" was broadcast on Vermont Public Television and won a Boston/New England Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Program. Her young adult novel, Life as I Knew It (Simon & Schuster, 2006) was chosen as one of the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2007. A novella entitled 24/1 is currently making the rounds of publishers as are two of the three books in her Close Call sci fi trilogy which is set in a post-apocalyptic, post-computer world. She is currently at work on book one in her Curses Anonymous series. She lives (for the moment at least) with her 15-year-old daughter in Lawrence, Kansas.