Janis P. Stout is professor of English emerita at Texas A&M University. She is the author of South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History, Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin, Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars, and Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World. She is also coeditor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
