Raphael, Kate Jessica: - Kate Jessica Raphael is a Seattle-based writer, activist and radio producer. She is the author of the IPPY award-winning Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery and its sequel, Murder Under the Fig Tree, a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year and Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Reclaiming Quarterly and Truthout. Kate received a 2011 Hedgebrook residency. She is a former board member and volunteer of ACCESS Women's Health Justice and San Francisco Women Against Rape. Connect with her at www.kateraphael.com or https: //www.facebook.com/kate.j.raphael.