Sally Bellerose is the award-winning author of The Girls Club, which was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA. Excerpts from the novel have been published in Sinister Wisdom, The Sun, The Best of Writers at Work, Cutthroat, Quarterly West and won the Rick De Marinis Award, the Writers at Work Award, and a Barbara Deming Award. The manuscript was a finalist for the James Jones Fellowship, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, The Backspace Scholarship, a Lambda Literary Award, an Independent Publishers Award, and a Golden Crown Literary Society Award. As an author, she loves to mess with rhythm, rhyme, and awkward emotion. She is also drawn to humor and transcendence. She writes about class, sex, sexuality, gender, illness, absurdity, and lately, growing old.