Rachel E. Pollock is a professor of Costume for Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her creative writing has appeared in the Harvard Summer Review, Southern Arts Journal, and Mason's Road, as well as the anthologies Steampunk, Confessions: Fact or Fiction?, and Knoxville Bound. She is also the sole author of the professional weblog, La Bricoleuse: Costume Craft Artisanship (http://labricoleuse.livejournal.com/).
