Deb Hoag has been writing professionally for nearly two decades, starting at a weekly alternative newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, The Metro Times. Her work there included answering phones, editing, writing a column and organizing such events as the Detroit Music Awards and the newspaper s yearly photography contest and Best Of issues. In the early 90s, Deb went back to school and was awarded a PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Detroit-Mercy. Since embarking on her new career, Deb s worked in a number of mental health positions. Her most recent fiction publication is Queer & Loathing on the Yellow-Brick Road which appeared in the Winter 2008 issue of Polluto. She has a collection of non-fiction essays on life, equality and modern mental health coming out in 2010 from Unlikely Stories, and is hard at work on a second novel for Dog Horn, this one centring on what happens when Dracula shows up at Freud's office, seeking, among other things, psychoanalysis.