Celeste Bocchicchio spent her early childhood years in student housing in Kent, Ohio. At four, she had a Sri Lankan babysitter, a Greek boyfriend, Iranian neighbors, and a fondness for dancing barefoot in the grass to drum circles. A dabbler rather than a specialist, her focus changes as often as her state of residence. A poet and painter in high school, she moved to Indiana, Pennsylvania to earn BA in Anthropology and Religious studies from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. At IUP she discovered bisexuality, radical politics and Zen Buddhism. In 2004 she chased her babysitter's sari all the way to Bangladesh where she completed Peace Corps training as an English teacher before becoming ill and disillusioned. She stayed in Bangladesh for three months--just long enough to become fascinated with the language and develop a love-hate relationship with the country. She hopes to go back someday. After her abbreviated stint in the Peace Corps, she spent nine months in her parents basement making recycled paper before moving to Ann Arbor to earn her MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Michigan in 2007. Ann Arbor thrilled her with its shop-window anti-war signs and promise of progressive politics; instead, she spent her free time learning lindy hop, east coast swing, charleston, cha-cha, salsa, and tango while causing her bunion to be excessively inflamed. Between dances she found time to write a master's thesis titled The Woman You Know is not Really Your Wife: Female Suffering and Identity in Literary Memorials of Partition in Bengal. She is currently working on her PhD in Women's Studies at Emory University and writing a fantasy novel about female infanticide and wizardry.