Sarah Deming‘s essays about sex, boxing, liquor, and life have appeared in the Washington Post, the Threepenny Review, Stiff Jab, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, and Penthouse Forum, and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Essays. Her children’s novel Iris, Messenger (Harcourt, 2007) is about the Greek gods in suburbia. She coaches youth boxers in Brooklyn.