Erica Lorraine Scheidt studied writing at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and later received an MA in creative writing from the University of Ca...view moreErica Lorraine Scheidt studied writing at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and later received an MA in creative writing from the University of California, Davis. Now a teaching artist and longtime volunteer at 826 Valencia, she lives in Berkeley, California, and is at work on a second novel.view less