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)