Amy H. Sturgis holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and focuses on the intellectual history of speculative fiction. Sturgis, who teaches at Signum University, has authored four books, edited or co-edited ten others, and published more than sixty essays. She also contributes the “Looking Back on Genre History” segment to the science fiction podcast StarShipSofa. Sturgis lives with her husband in the Appalachian highlands of Virginia, and her official website is amyhsturgis.com.