Renee H. Shea, formerly professor of English and modern languages at Bowie State University in Maryland, has published extensively on Edwidge Danticat. For Poets & Writers she has profiled numerous contemporary authors, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maxine Hong Kingston, Monique Truong, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, Tracy K. Smith, and, most recently, Arundhati Roy. She currently writes literature and rhetoric textbooks for Bedford, Freeman & Worth.