Rachel E. Pollock received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans in 2013. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Costume Production MFA program, and she makes a lot of random stuff for actors to wear. She spent a decade working as a nightclub DJ and promoter before focusing on the far more lucrative and less dramatic field of professional theatre. Some highlights from those years include leading over 1000 people in the Time Warp while spinning at the New Orleans House of Blues and providing music for the first Boston Tattoo Convention after Massachusetts overturned its longstanding ban on practitioners of dermal art.At various times in the past, she has also been a retail clerk, a sewing instructor, an improv comedienne, a bartender, an interior house painter, a transient nomad, a pianist, a pageant judge, an indigo dyer, and a hot mess.