Ashley Craig is the Treasurer for the Pride of Tupelo. She is the Composition Department Chair and Lead Online Composition Instructor at Itawamba Community College. Ashley earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Mississippi, an M.A. in English from the University of Mississippi, and a B.A. in English from Mississippi State University. Her book The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature from the Great Depression was published by LSU Press as part of its Southern Literary Studies series. She has also published articles in Journal of Dracula Studies, Midwest Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, and an essay collection on Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Most of Ashley’s writing focuses on marginalized communities, specifically poor-white women. However, recently, she has started writing about the history of the Lavender Scare in America and how this negatively affected society’s perceptions of the LGBTQ+ community. She presented her first essay on this topic, “Where the Park Bench Ends: Edward Albee’s Critique of Lavender Scare Policies in The Zoo Story,” at SAMLA 95 in Atlanta, GA. Ashley lives in Tupelo, MS, with her wife, Madeline, their two children, and their two Boston Terriers.