Jameela Lares is Professor of English at The University of Southern Mississippi, where her main academic specialties are Milton, English Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature, Bible and biblical style, and history of rhetoric.

She has also taught children's and young adult literature for many years in both the US and UK, has been a member of the International Committee of the Children's Literature Association, and is currently working on academic articles on Winnie-the-Pooh and British children's fantasy.

More information on her scholarly career can be found at http://www.usm.edu/english/fac-staff/fac-main.html, but in addition she writes works of trade fiction, The Healer of Wading Light, The Tale of Arnthoorn s’Brebin, and Out of the High Places. jamlares@yahoo.com