Delphine Bedient writes poetry, designs clothing, and runs Quotidian Press. Two books of her work, Down and Out on a Yacht and The Last Time My Sadness Was Convenient, are available from Two Plum Press. She likes black coffee, wearing sunglasses, and writing in cursive. Irene Doukas Behrman spends a lot of time thinking about the book BAD BEHAVIOR by Mary Gaitskill. She studies creative writing at Portland State University and is a graduate of the IPRC's Certificate Program in Independent Publishing. Her work appears in Jenny Forrester's UNCHASTE ANTHOLOGY, VOL. 3 and online at GAZE and PEACH MAG. She coedits an online literary journal called POM POM with Matthew Dinaro, and is working on a novel, EFFECTIVE LISTENING.