Robert Root is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Ashland University and professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Three of the essays in Postscripts have been cited as Notable Essays in the annual Best American Essays collections. Root¿s books include Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer¿s Tale, both available from the University of Nebraska Press.