Jeffrey DeShell, novelist, literary critic, is the author of three novels, S & M and In Heaven Everything is Fine (FC2), Peter: An (A)Historical Romance (Starcherone) and a critical book, The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe’s Fiction. He has co-edited two collections of fiction by American women, Chick-Lit I: Postfeminist Fiction and Chick-Lit II: No Chick Vics (FC2), and was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Budapest, Hungary, 1999-2000. Currently DeShell is an assistant professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.