Nicole Willey is Professor of English at Kent State University Tuscarawas, where she teaches literatures and writing and serves as the Faculty Mentoring Program Coordinator for her campus. She authored Creating a New Ideal of Masculinity for American Men: The Achievement of Sentimental Women Writers in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, and co-edited the collection Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two sons.