Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and award-winning teacher who lives in Montgomery, Alabama. His most recent book, Closed Ranks, tells the latter-day story of the Whitehurst Case, a police-shooting controversy in mid-1970s Montgomery. He is also the editor of Children of the Changing South, an anthology of memoirs about growing up during and after the movement. His work has appeared in such diverse publications as It’s a Southern Thing, Callaloo, the Encyclopedia of Alabama, and Evergreen Review.