P. L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Education at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina), taught high school English for eighteen years before entering higher education. He holds an Ed.D. from the University of South Carolina and has published Numbers Games (2004) and Teaching Writing Primer (2005), both with Peter Lang. He edits the series Confronting the Text, Confronting the World, in which he has authored volumes on Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, and Margaret Atwood.