Janet M. Powers, now Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA, taught for 50 years in the fields of South Asian literature and civilization, women’s studies and peace studies. She holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is the author of Blossoms on the Olive Tee: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace (Westport, CN: Praeger, 2006), Kites Over the Mango Tree: Restoring Harmony Between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat (Praeger 2008), and a book of poetry, Difficult to Subdue as the Wind (Finishing Line Press, 2008). She is currently at work on a new book based on an ongoing research project: Bosnian Women Moving on from War.