Kristine Yohe is professor of English at Northern Kentucky University and serves as a board member for the Toni Morrison Society. Her teaching and scholarship focus on Black American literature, especially the Affrilachian Poets collective. Yohe’s work has appeared in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, and Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner, among other publications.