Rob Dinsmoor grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, got his B.A. at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire (where he edited the student humor magazine), and then moved to New York, where he broke into medical writing. While he was there, he helped to found the edgy and popular comedy troupe, Chucklehead, an experience he wrote about in his first book, Tales of the Troupe. Through Chucklehead, he wrote dozens of scripts for MTV and Nickelodeon. He now lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts, where he continues to write about health and medical issues. He also writes fictive memoirs, pieces in which he disguises real characters he has encountered. His book The Yoga Divas and Other Stories is an irreverent look at his years as a yoga student and teacher, and You Can Leave Anytime chronicles his three months in a drug and alcohol facility in Florida. After he wrote dozens of stories that appeared in literary magazines, Big Table Publishing published his two short story collections, Toxic Cookout and You’ll Never See It Coming.