Kate Vieira, PhD, is a returned Peace Corps volunteer, a former Fulbright scholar, and professor and Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair of Literacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her scholarly books and articles explore questions of language, migration, and peacebuilding in communities in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the United States. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in The Sun, Tin House (online), and Writing on the Edge. She is working on a memoir, Fieldwork, about single parenting in Latvia.