Kat Hurley was born in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1978 and grew up chasing her older brothers around their home in Manor Country Club, or in the summer, at the family beach house in Bethany, Delaware. She attended Towson University, where she studied journalism and psychology by day and drugs and drag queens by night, waiting tables at the old Gampy's in Mount Vernon, Baltimore. After college, she spent six short months working in a downtown Baltimore ad agency before she packed her desk, trading it for a classroom. While teaching high school mathematics, a job she was mostly qualified for, she earned her master's degree in education. In 2006, Kat left home and teaching, boarding a plane to Hawaii with a one-way ticket. I Think I'll Make It is the story of the transformative tale that was made manifest by that highly charged two-year adventure.   When authoring a book still seemed horrifically daunting, Kat spent much of her free time writing short stories and slam-style poetry. It wasn't until 2011, when she sold her mini-cooper and anything else of even insignificant value and moved to Hong Kong, where she finally felt like she had the freedom to write whole-heartedly. Five months (and Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal, South Africa) later, the first draft of I Think I'll Make It was sent off for edits. Kat Hurley lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she and her fiancée, Elisa Haggarty, are working to change minds and lives with their separate, yet interwoven coaching, teaching, and speaking endeavors.   Learn more at kathurley.com and culinaryfarmacy.com.