CHANTEL SIMMONS is an author, editor and consumer trends tracker. Her first novel, Stuck in Downward Dog, was a Winnipeg Free Press bestseller, a Chatelaine Best Beach Book and Book of the Month, and a Vancouver Sun Editor’s Choice. Chantel has worked at ELLE Canada, Sweetspot.ca, TV Guide, Elevate and The Toronto Sun, and has contributed to FASHION, Best Health, Reader’s Digest, MoneySense, HGTV, Foodtv.ca and WNetwork.com. She teaches magazine and website writing and editing in the Book & Magazine publishing program at Centennial College, and lives in Toronto with her husband.