North Carolina native Kat Meads is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Missouri Review, storySouth, OBX Magazine, The Southern Quarterly and Southern Exposure, among other journals. These Particular Women, a collection of essays on the contradictory biographical portraits of ten famous and infamous women, including Estelle Faulkner and Margaret Mitchell, was published in April. (katmeads.com)