Laurie Champion, PhD

Laurie Champion is a native Texan who moved to San Diego to teach at San Diego State in 1999. She specializes in twentieth-century American literature with an emphases on the intersection of race, class, and gender. She has edited or co-edited eight books and published twelve short stories and over fifty scholarly essays in literary journals and anthologies. She is currently finishing her first novel and gathering short stories for an anthology of poker related fiction. She and her husband of thirty years, Bill-Bill, often visit their son, Billy, and their daughter-in-law, Hanna, in Finland or spend time in San Diego with their daughter, Brooke. When not enjoying their children, they keep busy chasing their three cats, Doo-Dah, Fat Cat, and Splinter and pampering their high-maintenance teacup poodle, Mimi.