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Stephie Grob Plante is an award-winning features writer and essayist. Her work has appeared at Pacific Standard, Southwest: The Magazine, The Verge, Racked, Curbed, The Atlantic, Playboy and elsewhere. She lives in Austin by way of New York and California, and has a dog named Pasta Bowl who is very sassy.