Miranda A. Green-Barteet is associate professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Department of English and Writing at University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond, and Race in Young Adult and Speculative Fiction. Her work has appeared in Canadian Review of American Studies, South Central Review, and the Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers.