TIYA MILES is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University, the author of five prize-winning works on the history of slavery and early American race relations, and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She was the founder and director of the Michigan-based ECO Girls program and is the author of The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning All That She Carried. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her latest book is Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Significations) (Penguin Press).