Fiyola Hoosen-Steele is a former South African diplomat to the United Nations, and former UN Representative for Plan International, Independent Diplomat, and Save the Children. Her works of fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Bosphorus Review of Books, Flash Magazine, AFREADA, Pensive Global Journal of Spirituality And The Arts, Feels Blind Literary and FemAsia. She was a finalist for the 2022 Ruminate Flash Prose Prize, and is the creator of Unleash Your Writer, a course that she teaches online. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter.