Katherine Chiljan (BA History, UCLA) is an independent scholar who has studied the Shakespeare authorship question since 1985. She debated the subject with English professors at the Smithsonian Institution in 2003. Her book "Shakespeare Suppressed" (2011, reprinted 2016) earned her an award for distinguished scholarship at Concordia University in 2012. Chiljan edited Letters and Poems of Edward, Earl of Oxford (1998), contributed to Contested Year (2016), and has written several articles in Oxfordian publications.