Blaise Allysen Kearsley is the creator, producer, and host of the How I Learned storytelling series, and has performed stories for The MOTH, The Soundtrack Series, and Literary Death Match, among many other series. Her photography and essays have appeared in New York magazine, Gothamist, VICE magazine, Gawker, Playbill, Midnight Breakfast, and The Weeklings, among others. She has contributed to the anthologies Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) and Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, And Abandoned Rock Operas (Crown Archetype). She holds a BA from Bennington College.