Kate Thomas is Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College. Author of Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters (OUP, 2011), she has also published articles on queer ecologies, vegetal poetics, lesbian gardens, and back-to-the-land socialist sex politics. Recipient of a 2019 Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture from the American Academy in Rome, she is currently working on a book project entitled “Lesbian Arcadia.” Most Sundays she can be found volunteering at her local farmers’ market.