Barbara H. Solomon is a professor of English and women's studies at Iona College. Her academic interests include twentieth-century and contemporary American and nonwestern fiction. Among the anthologies she's edited are The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin, Other Voices, Other Vistas, Herland and Selected Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Haves and Have-Nots, and Passages.

Eileen Panetta is an associate professor of English at Iona College. Her teaching focuses on the modern British novel and nineteenth-century American literature. With Barbara Solomon, she is the editor of Once upon a Childhood and Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories of Zona Gale.