Maxine Lavon Montgomery is professor of English at Florida State University, where she teaches courses in Africana, American multi-ethnic, and women’s literature. She is author of A Circle of One: Rituals of Black Girlhood in Africana Women’s Novels; coeditor of New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s “God Help the Child”: Race, Culture, and History; and editor of Conversations with Edwidge Danticat and Conversations with Gloria Naylor, the latter three published by University Press of Mississippi.
