Susan V. Meyers is an assistant professor of English at Seattle University, where she teaches fiction and composition. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2007–8 and a number of awards for her writing and teaching, she is the author of articles about literacy and migration in a variety of academic journals and numerous works of short fiction and poetry. Her novel, Failing the Trapeze, and her field study, Del Otro Lado: Literacy and Migration Across the U.S.-Mexico Border, were both published in 2014