Jay Watson Editor & Author

Jay Watson, Oxford, Mississippi, is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of English at the University of Mississippi. His many publications include Fifty Years after Faulkner, Faulkner's Geographies, Faulkner and Whiteness, and Conversations with Larry Brown, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Annette Trefzer, Water Valley, Mississippi, is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction.

James G. Thomas, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, is editor of multiple works on southern literature, and was managing editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.