Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored five morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, and Conjoined Twins - all published by McFarland & Co.