Helen Cusack O’Keeffe is a writer and social worker based in Paris for many foggy years. Publications can be found in the Bastille, Tightrope Press (Canada), Stoneskin Press (London), and Le Farming Times. Plays include Holey Tuscany, an absurdist maritime tragedy,  Napoleon, Femme, Rhinocéros, a bilingual Surrealist extravaganza, and The Terrible Mystery of Ophelia Dupont-Cassé co-authored with poetic genius Vincent Chabany.  She has been on the Paris Lit Up magazine editing team since issue #1. Her costume-maker alter ego, PomPom de la Tour Awfful, dresses actors and models for her own events and for ones hosted by her unfortunate victims.