Laura Moher is a former associate professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her head is full of stories of flawed people who come together to make each other–and their world–a better place. She had deep roots in the South, having grown up in the Louisville, Kentucky area before moving to the western Carolinas where she taught for 11 years. She has also lived in Colorado and Illinois and is now happily settled near her son in Minnesota.