Born in the outlying farmlands of Boulder County, Selena spent a disproportionate amount of her childhood reenacting “Oregon Trail” in nearby fields, saving her kitten-children from small pox and hunting bison with a BB gun. In her adolescent pastoral solitude, Selena also developed a fondness for reading the classics such as The Babysitters-Club: Boy-Crazy Stacey and Fear Street: The Secret Bedroom, and for watching cinematic milestones such as Rad and Soul Man. To this day, much of what she knows about child rearing, haunted make-out parties, race politics, and BMX bikes is based on these seminal texts. After a brief stint with Grammarians Anonymous (“God, grant me the serenity to accept the commas I cannot change, courage to change the misplaced modifiers I can, and the wisdom to know the difference between ‘they’re,’ ‘there,’ and ‘their’…”), Selena is on the road to recovery, hoping to make the semi-colon a friend to students everywhere, and preaching the salvation found in transitional phrases.