About

Punky Mantilla is Liz Schleicher, a Midwestern wife and mother of two tow-headed tots. She has a radiant rind (no, literally she’s been radiated) concealing a fluffy Muppet interior. Like her Alsatian ancestors before her, she enjoys working the land, drinking beer, yelling loudly about her opinions, and thanking God through his saints for all of it.

She is a contributing columnist for the Sedalia Democrat newspaper and proudly the “third-best” serious columnist in the state of Missouri.