Glenda Bissex, a former high school English teacher, has worked with young children, adolescents, and adults with learning differences, and has been a researcher with the Vermont Writing Program and for many years a mentor to teacher-researchers. She is the author of GNYS AT WRK: A Child Learns to Write and Read and of many chapters and articles in professional books and journals. She coedited with Richard Bullock Seeing for Ourselves: Case Study Research by Teachers of Writing (Heinemann, 1987).