June Casagrande is a journalist and editor who writes the weekly syndicated grammar column "A Word, Please." She is the author of It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences; Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies; and Mortal Syntax. She produces podcasts at GrammarUnderground, has worked as a freelance copy editor for the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles magazine, teaches for UC San Diego Extension's online copyediting program, and posts online at GrammarUnder.