Sheri Rysdam is Professor of English/Writing and Writing Center Director at Eastern Oregon University. In addition to various publications in writing feminist rhetorics, writing studies, and creative writing, she is co-author of Nonviolent Response: Strategies for Responding to Writing from University of Pittsburgh Press and author of The Doula Dialectic: Feminist Rhetorics for Childbirth from Bloomsbury Publishing. She is also a trained doula.