Beth Luey is the founding director emerita of the Scholarly Publishing Program at Arizona State University. She has more than thirty years' experience working in scholarly editing and publishing, having edited books for many university presses and textbook publishers and conducted publishing workshops for doctoral students and faculty members across numerous college campuses. In addition to Handbook for Academic Authors, now in its sixth edition, Luey is the author of Expanding the American Mind: Books and the Popularization of Knowledge and Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors.