Starr Goode, MA, teaches writing and literature at Santa Monica College. An award winning writer, she has been profiled in the "LA Weekly", the "Los Angeles Times", the "Wall Street Journal", and "The New Yorker". She was the producer and moderator for the cable TV series "The Goddess in Art", the episodes of which are now housed in the permanent collection of the Getty Museum as well as available on YouTube. She lives in Santa Monica, California.