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 coeditor of New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's "God Help the Child" and author of A Circle of One: Rituals of Black Girlhood in Africana Women's Novels. She is also editor of Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison, Conversations with Edwidge Danticat, and Conversations with Gloria Naylor, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.
