Anne Boyd Rioux is a writer and scholar of American women writers, uncovering the stories of their lives and fostering renewed appreciation for their forgotten or undervalued works. She is the author of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, which was chosen as one of the best books of the year by Library Journal and The Daily Mail, as well as Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist, which was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and chosen as one of the ten best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune. The recipient of four awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two for public scholarship, she has been interviewed on the BBC, NPR, and radio programs in Ireland, Sweden, and Australia. She has bylines in The Washington Post, LIterary Hub, Salon, and elsewhere.