Andrea McKenzie is associate professor at York University. With Jane Ledwell, she co-edited the essay collection, L.M. Montgomery and War. She has also published chapters about Montgomery in The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Textual Transformations in Children's Literature, Storm and Dissonance, and Making Avonlea, plus co-edited the restored text of Rilla of Ingleside with Benjamin Lefebvre. Andrea also served as conference co-chair of L.M. Montgomery and War (2014) and L.M. Montgomery and Gender (2016), and was Visiting Scholar with the L.M. Montgomery Institute from 2013-15. Alongside her work on L.M. Montgomery, Andrea also studies First World War nurses and their experiences overseas, and women's and children's life writing and first-person narratives, especially their experiences during wars and conflicts.