S. Yumiko Hulvey is associate professor of Japanese literature and associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Florida. She has published articles on female writers of both classical and modern Japanese literature in journals such as Monumenta Nipponica, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and Japan Studies Review. She has published book chapters in Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, Japan in Traditional and Post Modern Perspectives, the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Medieval Japanese Writers, and Body Politics and the Fictional Double. Her book Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben no Naishi Nikki was published by the Cornell East Asia Series Press.