Kris Frieswick is a humor, business and lifestyle writer, an award-winning humor columnist, and a stand-up comedian. Her work has been in demand at such magazines as The Economist, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Redbook, and USA Today, and she has been anthologized in two humor books, Mirth of a Nation (Harper Perennial) and 101 Damnations (St. Martin's). The Independent Media Institute called her a "smart, funny voice" to watch in American media. She lives in Boston's South End.