Edie Jarolim earned her PhD in English and American literature from NYU; as an adaption of her dissertation, she edited and wrote the introduction for The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn. She worked as a guidebook editor at Frommer’s, Rough Guides, and Fodor’s before moving to Tucson, Arizona, to become a freelance writer (or, as her mother might have put it, “You left your good job in New York to go where? To do what?”). She is the author of three travel guides, Frommer’s San Antonio and Austin, The Complete Idiot’s Travel Guide to Mexico’s Beach Resorts, and Arizona for Dummies, as well as one dog guide, Am I Boring My Dog? And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew. Her latest book,Getting Naked for Money: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All, is a memoir that focuses on her days as a guidebook editor and freelance travel writer. Her articles have appeared in publications ranging from Brides and Sunset to National Geographic Traveler and The Wall Street Journal. She currently spends most of her time in Tucson, where she is best known as a dining reviewer, but her terrier mix, Madeleine, is showing signs of restlessness.