Irene Doukas Behrman is based in the Boston, Massachusetts area. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire, a BFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University in Oregon, and is a graduate of the IPRC’s Portfolio Program (formerly the Certificate Program in Independent Publishing). 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 Matthew Dinaro’s fiction and/or poetry have appeared in JAKE, Voicemail Poems, Electric Cereal, and Potluck, and she’s released several poetry chapbooks on her zine imprint Pom Pom Press (currently out of print). She reviewed local musical acts at Rock and Roll Portland, OR from 2015 to 2021. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she served as Assistant Coordinator for the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival and read poetry submissions for Barnstorm. She’s also studied creative writing at Boston’s Grub Street, the Pioneer Valley’s Flying Object, and Portland, Oregon’s Independent Publishing Resource Center. She wrote A&E features and weekly events listings for the Boston Metro between 2008 and 2018, and currently writes similar content for Boston Magazine’s website (but please don’t contact Pom Pom about that). She’s 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. She lives in Davis, California.