Shanna Riker grew up in Memphis, TN and graduated from Blue Mountain College in rural, northern Mississippi with a BA in Theatre and a BS is Psychology. Shanna is a writer, an actress, a dreamer, a hopeless romantic, an avid trailer and an active blogger. She recently published her first novel, from which this play is based, Barbecue, Fried Chicken and "Where’s the Will?" and it is currently available at Amazon.com, The Create Space eStore, and Barnesandnoble.com. Shanna currently lives in New York City where she is constantly on the hunt for good coffee, authentic southern sweet tea, a good bargain and her next great idea. Shanna manages two blogs, gypsybloodedtraveler.wordpress.com (a blog of all of her travel tales), and mylifeisinTENse.wordpress.com (an autobiographical blog depicting her life in lists of Ten.) Feel free to contact Shanna via email at shannarenaeriker@gmail.com