Faye Rapoport DesPres is the author of the memoir-in-essays Message From a Blue Jay (Buddhapuss Ink, 2014); the three children’s books in the Stray Cat Stories series (Writer’s Coffee Bar Press, 2018-2021); and the micro-fiction collection Soul to Soul: Tiny Stories of Hope and Resilience (Huntsville Independent Press, 2023). She also co-edited and contributed to The Art of Touch: A Collection of Poetry and Prose from the Pandemic and Beyond (University of Georgia Press, 2023. She graduated with her MFA from Pine Manor College and has taught writing at Framingham State College and Lasell University. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals, and one of her publications was included in the Best Microfiction 2023 anthology.