Tyrese L. Coleman is a wife, mother, attorney, essayist and fiction writer. She is also an associate editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. A 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, her prose has appeared in several publications, including Catapult, Day One, Buzzfeed, Brevity, The Rumpus, listed in Wigleaf's Top 50 (very) short fictions, and forthcoming at The Kenyon Review. She can be reached on Twitter @tylachelleco.