Bill Gillard, PhD, MFA, is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he teaches climate fiction and creative writing. His specialty is speculative fiction from 1880-1940, and he is coauthor of Speculative Modernism: How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century. His poetry and fiction have been published widely, and his current research is on the Wisconsin author, Robert Bloch.