Laura Dorwart is a Ph.D. candidate and Fletcher Jones Fellow at UC San Diego with an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She has written for VICE, Playboy, SheKnows, Bitch, Bustle, Catapult, McSweeney's and others. She lives in Cleveland. Find more of her work at www.lauradorwart.com or follow her on Twitter.