About the Author

CLAIRE MILLIKIN is a poet, professor and scholar. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, and she has published the chapbook The Gleaners (2013), and her first poetry collection, MUSEUM OF SNOW (2013). Millikin's book, WITNESSING SADISM IN TEXTS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, on photographer Carrie Mae Weems, authors Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison and Flannery O'Connor, is forthcoming. She currently teaches Art History and Sociology as a Lecturer at University of Virginia. www.claireraymond.org.