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Jean Wyrick is Professor Emerita of English at Colorado State University, where she was director of composition for 11 years. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching writing, training writing teachers, and designing writing/writing-across-the-curriculum programs. Her other textbooks include THE RINEHART READER and DISCOVERING IDEAS. She has presented over 100 workshops and papers on the teaching of writing, American literature, American studies, and women's studies. Chris Field is an Associate Professor of English in the Languages, Literature, and Philosophy department at Tennessee State University, where he has served as the First-Year Composition Coordinator since 2016. In his more than 20 years of teaching at the collegiate level, he has taught a variety of composition and literature courses, and he has mentored countless students and colleagues. His previous works include Beyond the Frontier, Volume IV: Innovations in First-Year Composition (2025), Tell Me a Story: Using Narratives to Break Down Barriers in Composition Courses (2017), and "I'm Just a Comic Book Boy": Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk (2019). Audrey Wick is Professor of English at Blinn College in Texas. She has teaching experience in a wide range of modalities but currently splits her time with face-to-face and online instruction. She was honored with an annual Teaching Excellence Award at her institution. In addition to academia, she enjoys fiction writing with a variety of contemporary novels to her name. |