Lark Braten is originally from Lodi, California, but is now located in Michigan where she works in a very large research library and lives with her husband, baby, three cats, and assorted spiders. She completed her B.A. in linguistics in 2011 and someday hopes to be a cultural and applied anthropologist so she can work with churches and ministries on problems related to intercultural communication and organizational health. She blogs intermittently.