Muffy Mead-Ferro is the author of Confessions of a Slacker Wife and Confessions of a Slacker Mom, which Publisher’s Weekly describes as a “reminder not to take parenthood so seriously.” Mead-Ferro was born into a fourth-generation cattle-ranching family that has been raising Herefords in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, since the turn of the century. She traded her tractor for a typewriter and has been an advertising copywriter and creative director ever since. She lives with her husband and two children in Salt Lake City. – www.slackerbooks.com