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Melissa Ford is the author of the blog,
Stirrup Queens and the editor of the daily
Lost and Found. She is also a contributing editor at
BlogHer. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts—Amherst. She lives with her twins (hint: they're infertility treatment twins) and writer husband, Josh.