Guida Jackson has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine editor, book editor, English and Creative Writing teacher (University of Houston and Montgomery College). She has a BA in Journalism, MA in the Humanities specializing in Latin American literature, and PhD in Comparative Literature specializing in Third World literature, particularly West African. She is founder of Touchstone Literary Journal (1976) and Panther Creek Press (1999), and is the author of 18 books, fiction and non-fiction, published by Simon & Schuster, Oxford University Press, Barnes & Noble Books, ABC-CLIO, and others. Her...