Abigail L. Palko is the Director of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women“s Center at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship focuses on cultural and literary representations of mothering practices. Her book, Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature, is available from Palgrave Macmillan. She co-edited Mothers, Mothering and Globalization with Dorsía Silva Smith and Laila Malik for Demeter Press. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and Demeter Press publications.