Hester L. Furey is a poet and literary historian specializing in archival research and hidden histories. Full length poetry collections include Skeleton Woman Buys the Ticket (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and House of Jars (Frayed Edge Press, 2024). Furey teaches English at Georgia State University's Perimeter College. She has published in a variety of reference books and journals and was the editor/compiler of Dictionary of Literary Biography 345: American Radical and Reform Writers, Second Series. She is currently working on a biography of radical socialist writer Mary E. Marcy (1877-1922).