Long story short: Zsaleh Harivandi is a storyteller, a mama to three sons under age eleven, a graduate of Cornell Law School and Swarthmore College, and a legal recruiter. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram as @zsalehh.

The not-so-short story: Zsaleh Harivandi grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California. She spent most of her childhood with her nose in a book, but she made time to play quite a bit of soccer, saxophone, and clarinet. She moved East to attend Swarthmore College (she bought her first winter coat) and then Cornell Law School (she bought a warmer coat). After law school, she lived in Boston, where she got to clerk for two of the most wonderful federal judges on the planet and also did a mercifully short stint as a litigator at a large law firm. She left the practice of law (and the East Coast) when her oldest son was born. Zsaleh, her husband, and their three sons (right out of a fairy tale!) now live in Los Angeles, where Zsaleh is a legal recruiter by day and a storyteller at all other times. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram as @zsalehh.