18 July 2023
Jennifer Putzi begins her term today as Legacy‘s editor. Jenny has played an integral role at the journal for twenty years, as its book review editor (2003-2008) and a careful, passionate coeditor since 2016. I can think of no one better suited to take the journal forward.
Serving as Legacy’s editor for the past six years has been the greatest privilege of my career. The journal published my first article in 2002; and when then-editor Sharon Harris invited me to be a reader, I joined an intellectually defiant community that thrives on supporting and promoting emerging and established scholars. Their research keeps our field vital and insistent. Shepherding it from first submission to publication is joyful, even sacred work, but it is impossible without institutional support.
Issue 39.2 is coming out early next month, and our fortieth-anniversary double issue (40.1-2) went to press yesterday. Legacy’s new email address is legacyeditor@wm.edu. I’m staying on as a coeditor with Kate Adams through 41.1, and I can’t wait to see where Jenny, Kate, and the next coeditor (watch this space!) take the journal.
Susan Tomlinson
Coeditor
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 
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