Flose LaPierre (she/her) was born in La Vallée-de-Jacmel, Haiti, and grew up in Spring Valley, New York, before becoming a Floridian. Her fiction centers on death, grief, Haiti, politics, and love/intimacy. She wrote and performed spoken-word poetry for 13 years and hosted Write To Heal, an expressive writing workshop, for three years. Her nonfiction and poetry have appeared in places, but she will not say where because she is trying on a new identity (fiction writer). Flose has two cats and lives in Syracuse with her partner, Jesse, who writes, composes, and masters music.