Genesea M. Carter was born in Paso Robles, California, and has a M.A. in English from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a Ph.D in Rhetoric and Writing from the University of New Mexico. She has taught composition and rhetoric courses for over ten years. She's been published in Open Words: Access and English Studies, the Journal of Teaching Writing, Composition Studies, and Writers: Craft & Context. Currently, she is the Associate Director of Composition at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. You can listen to her podcast, An Academic's Life, where she shares the upsides and downsides of being an academic, on major podcast platforms.
