Irene Doukas Behrman is based in the Boston, Massachusetts area. She holds an M.F.A. in Writing from the University of New Hampshire, a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from Portland State University in Oregon, and is a graduate of the IPRC’s Portfolio Program. Her creative nonfiction piece “A Woman Named M” was awarded an honorable mention in the 84th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, and her short story “Permission” won 2nd place in Glimmer Train's November/December 2017 Very Short Fiction Contest. Irene's work can be found in Jenny Forrester’s Mountain Bluebird Magazine, Issue 2, Unchaste Anthology, Volume 3 and online at Gaze and Peach Mag. She’s the author of HOW DO I GET TO THE CLOUD (Quotidian Press) and has been working on a novel, EFFECTIVE LISTENING, for 84 years.
Mallory Elliott’s fiction and/or poetry have appeared, (under their given name, Matthew Dinaro) in Voicemail Poems, Electric Cereal, and Potluck, and they’ve released several poetry chapbooks on their imprint Pom Pom Press (now out of print). They reviewed local musical acts at Rock and Roll Portland, OR from 2015 to 2021. They’ve released seven albums of solo music as The Short Wave Mystery and played bass in Portland, Oregon bands The Toads, Streetcar Conductors, and Redcoat Turncoat. They wrote A&E features and weekly events listings for the Boston Metro between 2008 and 2018, and currently write similar content for Boston Magazine’s website. They have an MFA in poetry from the University of New Hampshire, and has also studied creative writing at Boston’s Grub Street, the Pioneer Valley’s Flying Object, and Portland’s Independent Publishing Resource Center.