SHEREE L. GREER is a writer, artist, teacher, and publisher living in Tampa, Florida. In 2014, she founded The Kitchen Table Literary Arts Center to showcase and support the work of Black women and women of color writers and is the author of two novels, LET THE LOVER BE and A RETURN TO ARMS, a short story collection, ONCE AND FUTURE LOVERS, and student writing guides, STOP WRITING WACK ESSAYS and BADDEST OUT OF YOUR FRIENDS. Sheree has received a Union League of Chicago Civic Arts Foundation award, earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago, and is a VONA/VOICES alum, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice grantee, Yaddo fellow, and Ragdale Artist House Rubin Fellow. Her essay, "Bars" published in Fourth Genre Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and notably named in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2019.