Claudine Griggs is a writer/teacher living in Fairfax, Virginia. She recently "retired" as the Writing Center Director at Rhode Island College and currently works as a writing specialist at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in Washington, D.C. Her previous publications include nonfiction books Journal of a Sex Change: Passage through Trinidad and S/he: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes; fiction publications include "Raptures of the Deep," "The Cold Waters of Europa," "Growing Up Human," "Firestorm," "Maiden Voyage of the Fearless," and "Helping Hand," which has been adapted as an episode in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots. She earned her BA and MA in English at Cali-fornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Don't Ask, Don't Tell is her first novel.