Gayle Brandeis is the author of FRUITFLESH: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write and THE BOOK OF DEAD BIRDS: A Novel, which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change. Her second novel, Self Storage, will be published in 2007. You can also find her at her website, her myspace page or her email: gaylebrandeis at gmail dot com.