Mary Helen Washington

Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers ; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers ; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women ; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers .

Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers ; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers ; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women ; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers . See less