About the Author

Kathryn Van Spanckeren is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tampa, Florida. With Robert A. Morace she edited John Gardner: Critical Perspectives (Southern Illinois University Press), and she edits the Margaret Atwood Society Newsletter.

Jan Garden Castro is on the Communications faculty at Lindenwood College. The founder of the Margaret Atwood Society, she introduced Atwood at the 1984 MLA National Convention. She has published numerous essays, interviews with writers, poetry, and the illustrated critical biography The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe.