Sarah Elaine Smith is the author of the novel Marilou Is Everywhere and a collection of poetry, I Live in a Hut. She has MFAs from the Michener Center for Writers and the Iowa Writers' workshop. She has also taught novel writing at the Interlochen Academy summer institute programs. She spends a lot of thinking about creativity, neuroplasticity, and why Vanderpump Rules producers should give Scheana a copy of The Art of War.