LAUREN BECKER lives in Oakland, California. She is editor-in-chief of Corium Magazine, and writes short fiction that has appeared in Pedestal Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Juked, Annalemma and some other places. She has a book called Things About Me and You in a book called Shut Up/Look Pretty coming out in January 2012 from Tiny Hardcore Press. She runs a reading series called East Bay on the Brain and is very fond of postcards, dive bars and bubble gum.