Maryann P. DiEdwardo is author and editor, and Adjunct Professor in Science Writing and Global Literature. Her most recent book, Hermeneutics Metacognition and Writing (2020), is about the importance of the critique in science writing. She is also the editor of the volume American Women Writers, Poetics, and the Nature of Gender Study (2016). She is a recipient of two awards from the College English Association, and was honored with the Northampton Community College Project Aware Service Award.