Kathleen Andersen-Wyman received her B.A., with high honors in English, from Oberlin College and completed her M.A. and PhD in Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. All three degrees focused on medieval literature and culture. She has taught at universities in California, Tennessee, Idaho and Texas. She currently resides with her family on the Texas Gulf Coast, where she teaches Literature, Honors English, Art Appreciation and Humanities at Brazosport College. She also directs the college art gallery, and diversifies her scholarly interests, when there is time, by painting