Amy T. Hamilton is a professor of English at Northern Michigan University where she teaches classes on Indigenous American literature, ecocriticism and environmental justice, early American literature, western American literature, and gender and sexuality studies. Amy is the editor of the journal Western American Literature and serves as the Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Northern Michigan University. She is the author of Peregrinations: Walking in American Literature (U of Nevada P, 2018), which was a finalist for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s Ecocriticism Book Award. And she is coeditor with Tom J. Hillard of Before the West was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers (U of Nebraska P, 2014).