Her heart is in classic country music, especially the Bakersfield sound, and her scholarship ranges from feminist explications of Fort Smith’s cultural heritage tourism sites to code-switching and hip hop as text. She is this year’s nonfiction editor for Arkana and the Assistant Editor for the journal Profane. Jack has made an accidental career of secretarial work, stayed busy with conference presentations across the South in the meantime, and finally made a home in Conway with her daughter Althea after years of living on the border.