Colette Parris is a Caribbean-American graduate of Harvard College, where she received a BA in English, and Harvard Law School.  She returned to her literary roots during the pandemic.  Her fiction can be found in various publications, including great weather for MEDIA, Scoundrel Time, Cleaver, The Offing, Sleet Magazine, and Streetlight Magazine, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (three times) as well as Best Microfiction.  Her poems, which have garnered three Best of the Net nominations,  have been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Healing Muse, Gordon Square Review, MoonPark Review, LEON Literary Review, SoFloPoJo, Gyroscope Review, and elsewhere.