Kristen Lucia Renzi is an Associate Professor of English at Xavier University, where she teaches and researches in the areas of Transatlantic 19th-20th Century Literature, Gender/Race/Class, and Embodiment. She is the author of poetry monograph The God Games and Other Voices (Main Street Rag Press, 2017) and scholarly monograph An Ethic of Innocence: Pragmatism, Modernity, and Women's Choice Not to Know (SUNY Press, 2019). She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, her two daughters, and their canine and feline companions.