Shirley A Stave Editor

Alice Knox Eaton is professor of English and chair of the Humanities Department at Springfield College. She contributed to Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison, and her work has appeared in Chronicle of Higher Education and A Review of International English Literature.

Maxine Lavon Montgomery is professor of English at Florida State University, where she teaches courses in Africana, American multi-ethnic, and women's literature. She is coeditor of New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's "God Help the Child" and author of A Circle of One: Rituals of Black Girlhood in Africana Women's Novels. She is also editor of Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison,Conversations with Edwidge Danticat, and Conversations with Gloria Naylor, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.

Shirley A. Stave is professor of English and assistant director of the Louisiana Scholars' College at Northwestern State University. She is editor of Toni Morrison and the Bible: Contested Intertextualities and coeditor of A Mercy: Critical Approaches.