James E. Kibler Jr. is professor emeritus of English at the University of Georgia, USA and a recognized Simms scholar who has published works on Simms's poetry and his pseudonymous writings. He is the author of Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction, Child to the Waters and Walking Toward Home.
David Moltke-Hansen is the former head of the South Carolina Historical Society, the Southern Historical Collection, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and served as the founding director of the digital William Gilmore Simms Initiatives of the University of South Carolina. He has edited History and Women, Culture and Faith: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Volume 3. Intersections: History, Culture, Ideology and William Gilmore Simms's Unfinished Civil War: Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters.
