MARISA FIFE is a registered nurse, medical editor, and public health writer. She holds a BS in Pre-Veterinary & Animal Science from the University of Massachusetts and a BSN in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University. Her work experiences have led her from monitoring songbirds for biological surveys, to rehabilitating wildlife, to caring for Oncology patients on bone marrow transplant floors. Her first fiction short story, The Woman in Brown, was published in 2022.