AGNES REGAN PERKINS is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. She has published numerous articles in journals and reference books including "A Tolkien Compass", "Unicorn", "Children's Literature", "Children's Literature Association Quarterly", "Writers for Children", and "Masterplots". She is co-compiler of the poetry anthologies "New Coast" and "Strange Harbors" (with Helen Hill) and "Straght on till Morning" and "Dusk to Dawn" (both with Hill and Alethea Helbig).