Gillian Murray Kendall is a Full Professor of English literature at Smith College. A specialist in Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama, and a graduate of Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program, she teaches a course on the post-apocalyptic novel as well as on topics in Renaissance literature. Kendall is the author of articles, short stories and a book of essays. She has two sons, Sasha and Gabriel, and lives with her husband, biologist Robert Dorit, in Northampton, MA.