Reneé Watabe works in an emergency room as a patient advocate, and her hobbies include cultivating her butterfly garden and trying to replicate the cheese omelet she once tasted in Paris. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and can be found in the anthology Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press), edited by Daniel Jones. A divorced mother of three, she lives in Verona, New Jersey.