Vicki S. Hallett is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.  Her work lives at the confluence of postcolonial, feminist, and life-writing studies and she is fascinated by the ways we create ourselves and our places in the world through stories.  She is the author of Mistress of the Blue Castle: The Writing Life of Phebe Florence Miller (ISER Books, 2018), and has contributed to journals such as a/b:Auto/Biography Studies, The Journal of Autoethnography, Acadiensis, and TOPIA.  She is a mother, and a settler Newfoundlander living in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) and Nitassinan, Nunatsiavut, NunatuKavut (Labrador).