Ashley Rowe Palafox, the author of the book Barefoot and in the Kitchen: Vegan Recipes for You and Cook Your Own Fucking Life: Vegan Comfort Food to Feed Yourself and Build Community, is a long-time zine-maker and comic-drawer. Ashley came to veganism via punk rock as a teenager in Los Angeles (before it was a vegan food destination) and majored in Community Studies at UC Santa Cruz before settling in Oakland, CA. Ashley co-founded and ran Fat Bottom Bakery from 2009 to 2014, and she has worked in fields from radical publishing to vegan food, and now the clinical laboratory.