Maryemma Graham is professor emerita of English at the University of Kansas. She is editor of Conversations with Margaret Walker, published by University Press of Mississippi. She also edited How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker and On Being Female, Black and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992. Amritjit Singh is professor of English at Rhode Island College and coeditor of Postcolonial Theory and the United States, Interviews with Edward W. Said, and Conversations with Ishmael Reed, all published by University Press of Mississippi.