Tamara Jerée (they/them) is an indie bookseller based in Chicago. A Twilight-era reader with an academic background in writing, they love combining speculative and literary tropes within the paranormal romance genre. Sharp/soft sapphic pairings are their weakness; vampires and demons are their best friends. Their short stories have appeared in the Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthologies Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness and Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology. Their poem “goddess in forced repose” in Uncanny Magazine was nominated for the inaugural Ignyte Award. The Fall That Saved Us is their debut novel and a finalist for the Indie Ink Award.