Dr. Martha L. Henning, author of <em>Classical Rhetoric Now!
Hot Tips for Writers</em>, has a somewhat checkered past.  She was raised
in Monterey, CA, a principal’s nerd daughter who rode her bike down to play in
the Ferris-wheel-like abandoned machinery of Cannery Row (sheet-metal
memories), ushered at Monterey Jazz and Pop Festivals (saw Dylan booed off
Baez’s stage), and rose from camper to counselor to director of the summer camp
in Big Sur.  At Stanford, as part of the April Third Movement, she
questioned the chemical and biological warfare research done at Stanford
Research Institute and so got to attend UC Santa Cruz as it opened. 
Surviving the political trauma of Stanford, she got an MA, a teaching
certificate, and went to the woods of Kentucky (think Wendell Berry) to raise
twins (and just about everything else) in a log cabin.  Emerging from the
woods more than a decade later, she found herself in a PhD program in Rhetoric
and Composition at the University of Louisville. Still knitting and addicted to
snowboarding, she fled back to the west coast, where she (thank stars) landed a
full-time position at Portland Community College. Then she wrote this
book.