Dawn Keetley is Professor of English at Lehigh University, author of　Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), and co-editor of　Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film　(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Matthew Wynn Sivils is professor of English at Iowa State University and the author of American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 (Ashgate/Routledge, 2014).