Caitlin Leffel is a writer, editor, and co-author of The Best Things to Do in New York: 1001 Ideas (2006) and NYC: An Owner’s Manual (2008). This year she officially became a bicoastal writer with the publication of Flair, an entertaining guide she wrote with Los Angeles interior designer Joe Nye. She has written for Blackbook, Time Out New York, Fashion Week Daily, and Mademoiselle, and was recently named as a runner-up in the Southeast Review’s 2010 nonfiction contest. She’s a founding member of the online literary happy hour “Five on Friday,” a graduate of Amherst College, and a very recent graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.