TRACY FLOREANI is an author, educator, and literary critic. She teaches multi-ethnic American literature, women’s literature, and academic writing at Oklahoma City University and serves as director of its public humanities programming initiative, the Jeanne Hoffman Smith Center for Film & Literature. She is the author of Fifties Ethnicities: The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury and is currently working on a biography of Fanny McConnell Ellison, the wife of Oklahoma-born novelist Ralph Ellison. When she is not teaching or involved in community-based projects, Tracy gardens, sews, plays folk music, and weaves words in her quirky midcentury home in Oklahoma City.
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 