Kathleen Sullivan Stephens holds the B.A. and M.A. in English from Baylor University and the Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University. She began her teaching career in 1992 at a community college, Central Texas College in Killeen, and has been at Richland College (part of the Dallas County Community College District) since 2014. She is the author of Women Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study (McFarland 2005), Our White Boy with co-author Jerry Craft (Texas Tech UP 2010) and Pitching for the Stars: My Seasons Across the Color Line with Jerry Craft (Texas Tech UP 2013). A stage play version of Our White Boy with co-author Nancy Munger received a staged reading at Echo Theater in Dallas in October 2018 under the direction of Michael Scudday and at KD Studio in Dallas in May 2019 under the direction of Willie Minor. Kathleen and Nancy are currently working on another staged reading of the play for the Bishop Arts Theatre Center in Dallas. Kathleen directs the Honors Program, Honors Study Abroad, Phi Theta Kappa IHC courses, and Learning Communities at Richland College.