Megan Simpson is Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State Altoona. Author of Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women’s Language-Oriented Writing (SUNY Press, 2000), her current research focuses on formally innovative cross-cultural poetics and ecocritical approaches to African American literature. Her critical essays have appeared in MELUS, ISLE, Reader, College Literature, Obsidian, and elsewhere.
