Flynn Meaney is the author of The Boy Recession and Bloodthirsty . She studied marketing and French at the University of Notre Dame, where she barely survived the terrifying array of priests and nuns, campus ghosts, and bone-crushing athletes who inspired St. Mary's Catholic School Presents The Vagina Monologues. Since completing a very practical MFA in Poetry, she works for a French company and travels often between New York (when she's in the mood for bagels) and Paris (when she's in the mood for croissants).