Paulette Boudreaux (’06) is the author of the novel Mulberry, which was published in 2015 by Carolina Wren Press and is the winner of the inaugural Lee Smith Novel Prize. Paulette has published short fiction in Voices, Acorn Whistle, In the Margins, Room of One’s Own, and Equinox: Writing for a New Culture. She has a B.A. in journalism from Northeastern University and a M.F.A. from Mills College. She teaches writing at West Valley College in Silicon Valley.