Full name: Susan Amanda Gault

Age: 32

Hometown: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Occupation: Special Education Teacher, Writer

Current Location: South Carolina

Education: BS in Criminal Justice - Appalachian State University; Master's in Education - Converse College

Hobbies: Playing guitar and mandolin (or basically anything that makes a noise), karate, making up dances, writing funny stories and lewd poems, prank calling my parents with my telephone voice changer, drinking beer, reading, flying airplanes.

Favorite TV show: The Simpsons, Weeds

Favorite Movies: Napoleon Dynamite, Star Wars (episode 4 is my favorite), Lord of the Rings (all of them), Harry Potter (all of them), Bridget Jones' Diary, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harold and Maude.

Favorite Books: We the Living (Ayn Rand), Life of Pi (Yann Martel), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), Pride and Prejudice, A Girl Named Zippy (Haven Kimmel), Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris), The Diary of Anne Frank, LOTR and all the Harry Potters.Preferred Music: Acoustic Syndicate, Rush, KISS, Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls, Talking Heads, anything Classical, Celtic, or Bluegrass.