Bea Koch (she/her) graduated from Yale with distinction as the last Renaissance Studies major and received an MA from NYU: Steinhardt in Costume History. She is co-owner of The Ripped Bodice Bookstore, a romance independent bookstore in Culver City, CA. She is also the author of Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency, a feminist pop history book that highlights women of the Regency period who succeeded on their own terms but have been largely lost to history.