Gretchen Berg

Gretchen Berg is an award-wanting writer with a Bachelor’s degree in something completely unrelated to writing. She has read articles for Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and The Economist (once when the TV wasn’t working). She is a Cancer, with Scorpio rising, who was born and raised. She wishes people dressed up more.Her humorous memoir, I HAVE IRAQ IN MY SHOE (May 2012, Sourcebooks)is “a hilarious recount of her struggles to assimilate into a vastly different culture… while picking up a few new pairs of shoes along the way” (Booklist).