Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was an American author best known, revered, and reviled for her 1899 novel The Awakening and its sexually aware and shocking female protagonist. Her fiction's emphasis on women's independence and passions was controversial enough during her lifetime for both it and her to remain relatively obscure until over half a century after her death.

Alex Wilson is a writer and stage/film actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. He starred in the North American Premiere of Richard Taylor's musical Whistle Down the Wind and recently filmed The Third Cord with Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido. His animated comics-parody film All's Fair in Love and Police Actions was recently selected as an iFilm Pick. He is the founder of Telltale Weekly and Spoken Alexandria. See his website for more. [new windows, all].