Paulina Claiborne is a pseudonym of Paul Park.[1] [2] According to her fictional biography, Paulina was born in Kansas and educated at home by Chinese missionaries. She has spent several stints in prison. Her past occupations include work as a cook, hairdresser, life coach, toxicologist, freelance letter-opener, and private surgeon. She has won the Warden's Special Prize for Model Servitude and enjoys knitting, drinking and knife fighting in her spare time.