Margit Longbrake, managing editor of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, has overseen the first-time publication of a number of primary Williams texts unearthed from the archives. As senior editor at the Historic New Orleans Collection, she acquires and edits books and museum publications, including Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers, translated…

Gary Richards is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he teaches courses in southern literature, modern and contemporary US fiction and drama, and gender and sexuality studies. He is the author of Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961, as well as numerous essays on southern…

Mona Lisa Saloy, PhD, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2021-2023, is an author, folklorist, Louisiana Folklife Commissioner, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. She is currently Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University. Her books include Red Beans & Ricely Yours…