Founder of the Every Damn Day Writ­ers online group, Ali­son Ham­mer has been spin­ning words to tell sto­ries since she learned how to talk. A grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da and the Cre­ative Cir­cus in Atlanta, she lived in nine cities before set­tling down in Chica­go, where she works as a VP cre­ative direc­tor at an adver­tis­ing agency.