Jardine Libaire is a novelist (novels include Here Kitty Kitty and White Fur) and screenwriter (just released a film she co-wrote called Endings, Beginnings with director Drake Doremus, starring Shailene Woodley, whose character has just given up alcohol). She is from New York, spent a blissful decade in Austin, and lives in LA now. She’s been sober since January 8, 2013.

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