Erika J. Waters

Erika J. Waters, Ph.D. previously taught at the University of the Virgin Islands where she founded and edited The Caribbean Writer. She has also edited or co-edited collections of drama, poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, and her work on women writers was funded by Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature and The National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 2002, she has taught part-time at the University of Southern Maine, and in 2005 was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland. She has recently published essays, interviews, and reviews in The Chronicle of Higher Education, World Literature Today, The Women's Review of Books, and Maine Boats, Homes, and Harbors. "Kittery to Bar Harbor: Touring Coastal Maine" was published by Arcadia Publishing in 2010 and "Proud We Are: The History of the University of the Virgin Islands" came out in 2013. Just out this year is "Discovering Old Florida: A Guide to Vintage South and Central Florida"--museums, historic homes, gardens, Art Deco districts, grand hotels, roadside attractions, archaeological sites, dive bars, antique shops, drive-ins, movie palaces, etc. See www.vintagetraveling.com