Kate Harding is the co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, founder of the internet's most popular body acceptance blog, Shapely Prose, and a regular contributor to Salon.com's feminist blog, Broadsheet. A graduate of University of Toronto and the MFA in writing program at Vermont College, she lives in Chicago with her husband and two very old dogs.