Steven Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.Yvette Christainse is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University and Visiting Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of two books of poetry. Her debut novel Unconfessed (Other Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Hemingway/PEN Prize for first fiction and a recipient of a 2007 ForeWord Magazine BEA Award. In addition, it was shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2008.