Marisa Walz

It was clear from a young age that Marisa would be a writer. She was always finding something to write, starting with her painfully  mundane childhood diaries. (No really, they're truly tedious--almost every meal from '91-'94 is logged, as well as every minor plot detail of every episode of Married with Children.) She also crafted some horrible poetry around this time. In her teen years, off the avocado-colored Acer desktop in her parents' basement, she ran e-zines that regurgitated the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle  advice she read about in print  magazines. She finally got her first paid writing gig in college as an opinion columnist and reporter for the campus paper, where she may or may not have fabricated a couple man-on-the-street quotes.