Mindy Nettifee is an award winning writer and accomplished performance poet. She has performed and taught in over 500 venues, colleges, and universities across America and Europe, competed in five National Poetry Slams, opened for indie rock act "The Cold War Kids", headlined national poetry tours "The Last Nerve - A High Tea Poetry Brawl", "The Whirlwind Company", and "The Poetry Revival", and was featured in the critically acclaimed poetry concert documentary "The Drums Inside Your Chest". Mindy currently serves as the director of the nonprofit poetry organization "Write Now Poetry Society", which she co-founded with actress and author, Amber Tamblyn, in 2007.