Steven Gevinson is the English division chair at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he has taught English since 1978. He contributed a chapter to Reflective Teaching, Reflective Writing: How to Develop Critically Engaged Readers, Writers, and Speakers (Heinemann, 2005) and is coauthor of Fostering the Reader's Response: Rethinking the Literature Curriculum, Grades 7 - 12.