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June Casagrande was born in March and lives in a small house.

She mastered the spelling of her own last name at age fourteen and has been trying to make a career of it ever since. After discovering that her bachelor’s in political science would not get her better waitressing shifts, June moved from Florida to California and discovered the exciting field of community news. For ten years (off and on) she served as a reporter, writer, and editor, basking in the thrills found only in the city council chambers of Santa Monica, Burbank, Newport Beach, and even Rancho Cucamonga.

As a staff writer at the Newport Beach community news supplement to the Los Angeles Times, June discovered that people who own yachts also have the time to read columns about grammar and style. Capitalizing on their idle success, June launched a weekly grammar column now titled “A Word Please,” which appears in several Times community news sections. She recently achieved the dream of dedicating a portion of one column to her own last name. (It’s Swiss, according to her father.)

June attended the University of South Florida, where she earned her bachelor’s degree. She attended the improv comedy school at the renowned Groundlings Theatre, where she flunked out (much tougher program).

She recently taught herself website design. (To have June design your website, click here.)

June enjoys the beach, the theater, really bad dance music, and studying foreign languages. Due to the latter, she knows just enough to embarrass herself in front of waiters in Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, and Hungarian restaurants. In her mother tongue, June loves to boldly split her infinitives and she enjoys the prepositions she ends her sentences with.

June loves a man named Ted who, lucky for her, loves her back.

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is her first book (written and read).

(Photo by Stephanie Diani.)