Roberta Seelinger Trites, Bloomington, Illinois, is Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University, where she has taught children's and adolescent literature since 1991. She is author and coeditor of many works, including Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels and Literary Conceptualizations of Growth in Adolescent Literature. She has served as president of the Children's Literature Association and as editor of Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
