Roberta DePiero was born in Cleveland, Ohio and transplanted to Key West in 1991. She is a Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, graduate. Her theater photography has appeared in print and posters. Following her love of history and her own genealogy search, she became a www.FindAGrave.com volunteer photographer and discovered, through photographing these requested graves and monuments, the beauty and tranquility of the Key West Cemetery. She is married author Reef Perkins. Roberta with her husband won the Tennessee Williams Museum 2019 Short Story Contest for their story, Between the Pages.