Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she found a personally-warm but temperature-cold lifestyle, Lori enjoyed a family engaging in all sorts of verbal play. As a youngster, she wrote poems as a way of bringing cheer to celebrations and expressing the myriad of emotions that accompany growing-up. Throughout her life, writing has been a source of fun and comfort, while attempting to explain the world we all live in. In 1984, Lori relocated to Austin to attend the University of Texas, where she was thrilled to find both the climate and the people warm. Lori maintains that she contri...