Amy Hudock, Ph. D., is a writer, professor, and editor who lives in South Carolina with her family.  She is a co-editor of the books Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (Seal Press 2006) and American Women Prose Writers, 1820-1870 (Gale 2001).  Her work has been anthologized in the Chicken Soup for the Soul and Cup of Comfort series, as well as in Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience, Torn:  True Stories of Modern Motherhood,  Ask Me About My Divorce, Mama, PhD, and Single State of the Union.  She is a co-founder of Literary Mama, an on-line literary magazine chosen by Writers Digest as one of the 101 Best Web Sites for Writers (2005 and 2009) and by Forbes as one of their 100 Best of the Web (2005). Her work has also appeared in Skirt!, Equus, The Post and Courier, ePregnancy, and Pregnancy and Baby.  She teaches writing (creative and other) at Trident Technical College, and occasionally teaches classes at the College of Charleston and the Citadel.  In addition, she has taught writing, American literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, the University of South Carolina-Columbia, The University of Georgia-Athens, Marshall University, and The University of California-Berkeley.