Lori Schafer is a writer of serious prose and humorous erotica. More than thirty of her short stories, flash fiction, and essays have appeared in a variety of print and online publications, and her first two novels, My Life with Michael: A Story of Sex and Beer for the Middle-Aged and Just the Three of Us: An Erotic Romantic Comedy for the Commitment-Challenged, will be released in 2015. Her memoir, On Hearing of My Mother's Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness, will be published in October 2014. Lori is currently at work on a sequel to Just the Three of Us (untitled as yet), and is in the planning stages for a second memoir called The Long Road Home, the first draft of which she will begin during a two-month long road trip she will be making across the United States and Canada this summer. When she isn't writing (which isn't often), Lori enjoys playing hockey, attending beer festivals, and spending long afternoons at the beach reading.