RHODA BERLIN is the co-author of the non-fiction book Mixed Blessings: A Guide to Multicultural and Multiethnic Relationships. Her original short story "Last Bite" appears in Festive Mayhem 2, a collection of cozy holiday mystery stories by seven crime writers of color. 

Interested in how stories come to be? Rhoda and two of her FM2 colleagues contributed essays to a blog that asks writers to describe their creative processes by analyzing - that's right - the first two pages of a recent story. Rhoda's is here: The First Two Pages.