Kim Hensley Owens is assistant professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island. Kim maintains an abiding interest in how bodies write, how technologies and bodies interact to produce writing, and what effects those interactions have on writing, on technologies, and on bodies. Her work on the rhetorics of childbirth stems from this broader interest in writing and bodies. Kim's most recent publications include "Confronting Rhetorical Disability: A Critical Analysis of Five Women's Birth Plans" in Written Communication and a chapter in Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures.