Katharine Bubel, Ph.D. (University of Victoria) is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, Canada. She has published on American and British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a series of journals and scholarly collections, exploring, for example, nature, spirituality, and/or desire in the poetry or prose of Charlotte Brontë, George MacDonald, Gerard Manley Hopkins, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, and Theodore Roethke. She is currently completing a book manuscript “Edge Effects: Poetry, Place and Spiritual Practice,” on the works of five twentieth- and twenty-first century North American West Coast poets.