Originally from Alabama, Dr. Whitney Snow is an Associate Professor of History at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.  After earning her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, she received her PhD from Mississippi State University.  She is the editor of The Civil War Diaries of Cassie Fennell: A Young Confederate Woman in North Alabama, 1859-1865 (University of Tennessee Press, 2020).  She is the author of the book Cathedral Caverns (Arcadia, 2017) and co-author of Lake Guntersville (Arcadia, 2018).  Her work has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals ranging from The Alabama Review and The Southwestern Historical Quarterly to Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture and Forests, Trees and Livelihoods.