Cynthia J. Davis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She was a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (OUP, 1995). Kathryn West is Assistant Professor of English at Bellarmine College. She was a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (OUP, 1995).

"as an introduction to the 2true West" this could hardly be bettered. 'The culture should stop trying to be the "Lone Ranger", one Western writer, recently observed of his homeplace; and this anthology gives a handy idea of just what he had in mind" Richard Gray", Friday, 18th June 1999