Diane Simmons teaches at the City University of New York Borough of Manhattan Community College, where she is an associate professor of English. Research for this book has been vetted in journals such as Psychoanalytic Review, and the Journal for the Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Society, and an excerpt from the book was awarded the Heinz Kohut prize. Dr Simmons has published two previous monographs, Jamaica Kincaid and Maxine Hong Kingston, and is the author of two novels.
