Tracy DeBrincat's short story collection, TROGLODYTE, was awarded the 2012 Elixir Prize and published by Elixir Press in January 2014. Her novel HOLLYWOOD BUCKAROO was awarded the inaugural Big Moose Prize and published by Black Lawrence Press, and the short story collection MOON IS COTTON & SHE LAUGH ALL NIGHT received a prize for innovative fiction and was published in 2010 by Subito Press (University of Colorado Boulder). She has published prize-winning short stories and poetry in literary journals from Another Chicago Magazine to Zyzzyva and authors the blog Bigfoot Lives!. She is a freelance creative advertising consultant in the entertainment business and loves living in Los Angeles.