Joan Wylie Hall, Oxford, Mississippi, is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of "Shirley Jackson: Studies in Short Fiction" and the editor of "Conversations with Audre Lorde" (University Press of Mississippi). Her work has also been published in numerous journals such as "Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers"; "Southern Register"; "Mississippi Quarterly"; "Faulkner Journal"; and the "Eudora Welty Review".