Mary Elizabeth Pope is an associate professor of English at Emmanuel College in Boston. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Florida Review, Sycamore Review, Fugue, Dos Passos Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and Descant, as well as the anthologies The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (Longman) and Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan (Michigan State University Press). She lives with her husband in Boston.