A Fire to Light Our Tongues

ELIZABETH JOAN DELL, an émigré from Virginia, has lived in central Texas long enough to raise children and call it home. Fiction editor of this anthology, she is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Baylor University, where she teaches literature and creative writing and serves as Literature Program Director. She is coeditor with Joe B. Fulton of American Literary Cultures: A Reader. DONNA WALKER-NIXON, a native Texan, attended a two-room school outside of Stephenville, where she dreamed of growing up to teach and write. She went on to build a thirty-year career teaching English literature, composition, and creative writing at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Baylor University. She founded Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature and The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas. She was lead editor of Her Texas.