Rose-Anne Clermont, a New York-born child of Haitian immigrants, has been writing fiction since she was six years old. She studied fiction and dance at Sarah Lawrence College and later became interested in helping others tell their stories. She subsequently attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 1999, Rose-Anne received a Fulbright fellowship to Germany and settled in Berlin two years later. She soon began writing about the various immigrant communities in Berlin and wrote her own account of being an immigrant in a humorous memoir, in German, entitled Bushgirl: How I Got Stuck with the Germans (Random House Germany). Rose-Anne also spent several years working in organizations that assist journalists around the world. She has trained and anchored stories from journalists in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan and is currently an editor, journalist, and advocate for journalists in countries of political upheaval. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Root, Vibe, The Local, Spiegel Online International and Berliner Zeitung.