Katherine Rothschild, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, a former Arabic dance instructor, and an obsessive food truck follower. She’s the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center artist’s grant, and her personal essays have been published on KQED/NPR, in the San Francisco Chronicle, and in several other publications. She graduated from UC Irvine’s creative writing program and earned an MFA in fiction writing at St. Mary’s College of California.