Marie Kuipers is the "Grammar Hammer," an eagle-eyed copy editor and proofreader dedicated to fine-tuning even the clunkiest prose, making it purr like a horny cougar. She graduated from Georgetown University two hundred years ago and holds an editing certification from the prestigious University of Chicago Graham School, which, according to her mother, makes her "unemployable." She lives with an assortment of flatulent dogs and coddled chickens near Chicago, where she coaches junior roller derby while still longing for New Jersey and its dubious assortment of encased meats. This is her first book.