Hazel Jane Plante is a queer trans librarian, cat photographer, and writer. In a previous life, she co-founded a micro-press, co-edited a little literary journal, co-hosted a podcast, and released lo-fi albums under the name Sparse. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) is her first novel.

She currently lives in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam), S?wx_wú7mesh (Squamish), and s??lílw?ta?? (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.