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Mignon Fogarty


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Mignon Fogarty, Sarah Shatz

Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips. A magazine writer, technical writer, and entrepreneur, she has served as a senior editor and producer at a number of health and science web sites. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University.

She is both the Podcast (2007) and Peer Podcast (2006)Awards Winner of the Best Education Podcast and the Peer Podcast Awards winner of the Favourite Audio Program for 2007.

Mignon believes that learning is fun, and the vast rules of grammar are wonderful fodder for lifelong study. She strives to be a friendly guide in the writing world. Her arch enemy is the evil Grammar Maven who inspires terror in the untrained and is neither friendly nor helpful.