Cristina M. Freire (she/her) is a graduate of Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC) who also holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia. She works for the Burnaby Public Library as a librarian. She shares an apartment with Lightning and Rainbow, her two cats, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.