Freelance writer Maile Hernandez is a Phoenix Theater Examiner, blogger and author (The Unreachable Star: My Unauthorized Travels with Patti LuPone). She was a vocal performance major at Indiana University, and has performed with several professional Valley theaters. She also received a law degree from Arizona State University in 1999 and works for a superior court judge. She is married to attorney Conrad Hernandez, and they have a beautiful son, Max, who has autism.