Leslie Stainton is the author of Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts (Penn State Press, 2014), and Lorca: A Dream of Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). She’s now at work on a book about her slaveholding Scarlett ancestors. Stainton’s essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Opera News, Crab Orchard Review, River Teeth, Brevity, and other publications. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is an editor and past lecturer in creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan.