Genevieve Rheams is a silly person who enjoys making things up and strongly encourages other people to do so. She writes romance, comedy, LGTBQ+ literature, and personal essays. Her novel We Will Plant Birds of Paradise is due for release in the fall of 2025 through Rattling Good Yarns Press. She received her MFA in Fiction from the University of New Orleans, teaches fiction writing workshops, and is an Academic Advisor at Loyola University. You can find her telling stories onstage at her local chapter of The Moth or Greetings, From Queer Mountain. She delights in having conversations with her three adult children and going for absurdly long walks. She lives with her wife in her hometown of New Orleans with their two cats and a dog. As you read this, she is most likely out of coffee and litter.