Janet Eldred

J.C.M. Eldred grew up in California’s San Joaquin Valley. She is currently Chellgren Professor at the University of Kentucky where she teaches creative nonfiction, editing, and literature in the English Department. She is the author of Sentimental Attachments (Heinemann, 2005), a volume of creative nonfiction, and Literate Zeal (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), a look into the editing practices and editorial secrets of The New Yorker magazine.