Renee H. Shea, formerly professor of English and modern languages at Bowie State University in Maryland, has published extensively on contemporary authors, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Monique Truong, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rita Dove, Tracy K. Smith, Arundhati Roy, and Nathalie Handal. An English language arts consultant to public school districts, she currently writes textbooks for Bedford, Freeman & Worth. She recently coauthored American Literature and Rhetoric, which will publish in January 2021.