Catharine Savage Brosman, a poet, essayist, and scholar, is Professor Emerita of French at Tulane University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield, where she held the De Velling & Willis Visiting Professorship for a term. She serves as poetry editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. At Tulane she was Mellon Professor of Humanities in 1990 and later held the Gore Chair in French. After nearly 40 years in New Orleans, she settled in Houston in 2007. She and her husband spend their summers in Colorado, her native state. Poems of hers have appeared all over the U.S. and in England and France, and she has published ten collections, with a new one in press for 2017. In addition, her poetry has been anthologized frequently and featured on the radio and on internet sites such as Poetry Daily and American Life in Poetry. Dr. Brosman's previous collections of personal and cultural essays are The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays (1994) and Finding Higher Ground: A Life of Travels (2003). Her scholarly publications comprise 18 volumes on French literary history and criticism and two on American literature: Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study (2013) and Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness (2016).