Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record

Melissa D. Birkhofer is a settler scholar who was born in Iowa and grew up in North Carolina. She is teaching assistant professor of English at Appalachian State University. Birkhofer was founding director of the Latinx Studies Program at Western Carolina University and is codirector of the journal Label Me Latina/o. With Paul M. Worley, she is co-translator of Miguel Rocha Vivas's Word Mingas: Oralitegraphies and Mirrored Visions on Oralitures and Indigenous Contemporary Literatures.

Paul M. Worley is a settler scholar from Charleston, South Carolina, and professor of Spanish at Appalachian State University, where he serves as chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He is the author of Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures and, with Rita M. Palacios, coauthor of Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts'íib as Recorded Knowledge.

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her work Going to Water won the Morning Star Award for Creative Writing from the Native American Literature Symposium and was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She is coeditor of the Journal of Cherokee Studies and serves on the board of trustees for the North Carolina Writers' Network.