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Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel (prefers to be called Ketsia) was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti, currently lives in Homestead, Florida with her three children and husband. She teaches at Miami Dade College. She earned a Bachelors from Tufts University and a Masters in English from University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her most recent publications include ＂How to Get Up When Your Man’s Been on Da Down-Low＂ published in Faultline: Journal of Arts and Letters volume 23; ＂Le Bon Berger＂ published in So Spoke The Earth, edited by M.J. Fievre. ＂Kako Blood＂ in the Caribbean Writer, 2011; ＂Mercy at the Gate＂ in Haiti Noir, edited by Edwidge Danticat, 2011; ＂Haiti: a Cigarette Burning at both Ends＂ in Butterfly Ways: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States, edited by Edwidge Danticat, 2001; and ＂The Mango Tree＂ in Compost Magazine, 1994. Her children’s books include Momma, How Beautiful you are (2015), Where the Dinosaurs Sleep (2015), Beauty Walks in Nature (2010), Songs from a Tower (2009), Keeper of the Sky (2007), One More Daughter, America (2006), Daughter of the House (2005), A Fish Called Tanga (2003), I’ll Fly Away (1999)