Chelsea Cain

Chelsea Cain lives in Portland, Ore., where she is a freelance writer and dreams of a large wedding at the Church of Elvis . She is the author of Dharma Girl, a memoir of her hippie girlhood, and the editor of the anthology Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture. Her work has also been published in Ms. Magazine, The Oregonian, and in two anthologies, Sex and Single Girls and Family Travel: The Farther You Go, The Closer You Get. In addition she writes regularly for The Portland Mercury, though mainly under a pseudonym as she is very shy. She wants you to know that Elvis is dead. Chelsea has written other travel articles for VIA: Florence, Oregon: A Weekend Getaway , and Portland's Vacuum Museum .