Shanee Stepakoff Author

Shanee Stepakoff is a psychologist and human rights advocate with extensive experience in postwar settings. Her work has been published in edited books and in literary and scholarly journals. She holds a MFA from The New School and is completing a PhD in English at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown.

Ernest D. Cole is John Dirk Werkman Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. His research focuses primarily on post-apartheid South Africa, but he is also interested in body and trauma studies, especially the ways in which bodily injury shapes identity. He is the author of several books, including Space and Trauma in the Writings of Aminatta Forna and Theorizing the Disfigured Body: Mutilation, Amputation, and Disability Culture in Post Conflict Sierra Leone.