Jalissa Corrie, writing as J. Marcelle Corrie, is a marketing and publicity professional and a contributor to A Phoenix First Must Burn, a young adult science fiction and fantasy anthology coming March 2020 from Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House. An advocate for underrepresented voices in publishing, Jalissa is a planning committee member of People of Color in Publishing. When she isn't writing or working, you can find her at bookish events across New York City.