Elaine Neil Orr grew up in Nigeria. She is professor of English at North Carolina State University and on the faculty of the Spalding University low-residency MFA program. Her other books are Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women's Fictions and Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life, a memoir.
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