Abigail L. Palko is the Director of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center at the University of Virginia. Her teaching, research, and writing focuses on representations of mothering practices. She is the author of Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Mothers, Mothering and Globalization, Cultural Representations of Breastfeeding (2017 and 2018, both Demeter Press), and Feminist Responses to the Neoliberalization of the University (Lexington Books, 2020). The joy of her life is raising a strong feminist daughter with her partner.