Rin Kelly is a writer, reporter, and too-proud native of Denver whose work has turned up all over, from newspapers in New York, L.A., the Bay Area, and D.C. to Salon and Kenyon Review Online. She is a culture contributor and film editor at Los Angeles magazine L.A. RECORD and a freelance investigative journalist whose work on Lehman Brothers and dirty developers has made the bastards mad. An alum of Columbia's Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, she is working on deathly serious things; as a passionate anti-reality advocate, she is also at work on a novel about an alien who grew from a decorative gourd.