Jane Sag­i­naw is a stu­dent in the Ph.D. Pro­gram in Lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dal­las. Her mem­oir, Because the World is Round, recounts a fam­i­ly trip around the world in 1970 with her moth­er who was wheel­chair-bound from polio. Before return­ing to grad­u­ate school, Jane was a tri­al lawyer with Baron and Budd in Dal­las, Texas. She lat­er served in the Clin­ton Admin­is­tra­tion as the Region­al Admin­is­tra­tor of the U. S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, Region Six. In 2006, she was award­ed Trail Lawyer of the Year by Tri­al Lawyers for Pub­lic Jus­tice for her envi­ron­men­tal work involv­ing ground­wa­ter con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in Tuc­son, Ari­zona. Jane’s under­grad­u­ate degree is in cul­tur­al geog­ra­phy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley. Her law degree is from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas, Austin. Her essays and poet­ry have been pub­lished in Athenaeum Review and are forth­com­ing in Image, D Mag­a­zine, and PB Dai­ly.