Marcy Dermansky is the author of the BAD MARIE and TWINS.BAD MARIE has been selected for the Barnes and Noble Fall 2010 Discover Great New Writers program. Booklist Magazine hailed the book as "a wickedly nihilistic and suspenseful tale of erotic mayhem." TWINS was a NY Times Editors Choice Pick and a New York Public Library 2006 Selection of Books for the Teen Age. Marcy is the recipient fellowships from the the MacDowell Colony and the Edward Albee Ranch. She is the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story Magazine Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including "McSweeneys," "The Alaska Quarterly Review," and "The Indiana Review," and included in the anthology "Love Stories: A Literary Companion to Tennis."Marcy serves as a board member of the online literary community Fictionaut. She is a film critic for About.com and belongs to the New York Online Film Critics. She lives in Astoria, New York.