Sara FitzgeraldSara Fitzgerald's biography of Emily Hale will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2024. She is the author of The Poet's Girl: A Novel of Emily Hale and T. S. Eliot. Her essays about Hale's life have appeared in Volumes 3,4 and 5 of The T. S. Elit Studies Annual, the 2020, 2022 and 2023 editions of the Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK), and Time Present and Exchanges, the newsletters of the International T. S. Eliot Society and the British society, respectively. She has also presented papers on Hale and Eliot at conferences of the International T. S. Eliot Society, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association and the Midwest Modern Language Association. She is also the author of Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX and Elly Peterson: "Mother" of the Moderates, both published by University of Michigan Press. She retired after a career in journalism that included fifteen years as an editor and new media developer for the Washington Post. Read More Read Less