Mecca Sullivan received her M.A. in fiction in 2006. Her thesis was titled She Woke Up With The Words In Her Mouth. Her story "Powder and Smoke" was published in Bloom, Spring 2005 (vo. 2, no. 1). She was awarded a 2005 scholarship to the New York State Writers Conference and is now attending the Ph.D. English Program at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.