Kris Willcox is a contributing editor for UU World. She is a writer and Unitarian Universalist with roots in the mountain west and a home in the Boston area. She spends her days writing for universities and other nonprofit organizations. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Vela, Cimarron Review, Literary Mama, and other publications. She is at work on a collection of essays titled “Small Fortune.” Kris is the partner of Scott and the mother of Audrey and Calvin. Each summer her family assists her in an on-going search for the world’s greatest lobster roll.