Margaret A. Brucia is a Fulbright scholar, the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Trained as a classicist, she has a special interest in women's diaries and letters. Paul Crumbley is professor emeritus of English at Utah State University and coeditor of Body My House: May Swenson's Work and Life. David Hoak is an independent scholar whose work focuses on letters between poets, including May Swenson and Elizabeth Bishop.