Betty Jean Craige, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, is now a writer of mysteries and non-fiction. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with Cosmo, her beloved African Grey parrot.

​Betty Jean has two forthcoming books: Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo, to be published in 2021 by Sherman Asher Publishing; and Smatter's Woods: A Witherston Murder Mystery, to be published in 2021 by Black Opal Books.