Audrey Farley is a literary scholar and historian with a PhD in English from University of Maryland, College Park. She recently completed a manuscript on the life of heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, whose sterilization in 1934 transfigured the eugenics movement. Her literary criticism has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals; and her public writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Narratively, Longrea