Scott LaMascus is director of the McBride Center for Public Humanities at Oklahoma Christian University. As an educator, writer, and public-humanities advocate, he is a recipient of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and served many years on the Board of Trustees for Oklahoma Humanities, including leadership as its chair. He is on the staff of Lunch Ticket literary magazine. His recent writing appears in AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle, Red Ogre Review, and Epiphany.