Oh, wow, I totally missed this when the post came up.

I am a sculptor and technician for a company that sells sculpture tools and materials in New York City, and I live in the 6th Borough (Hudson County). I am 28 and have been NaNo-ing since 2002, with a couple of gap years where I didn't have my life in any kind of order. I have won NaNo 3 times, with a combined total of 249,000 words in 2010 and 2011. I have done the prep three times now and I can verify it makes writing the novel in November so much easier.
This is the third year in a row that I will be writing in the same universe. I am kind of hoping to put the series to bed after this, but a little part of me wants to find an ending that will leave me an "in" to keep writing sequels and side stories. Hmmm!

~j