Willa Stillwater co- founded and serves as co- author and co- editor of Dancing with the Elephant (dancingwiththeelephant.wordpress.com), a blog devoted to fostering conversations about Michael Jackson, his art, and social change. Stillwater has a PhD in English, and her doctoral research focused on the many ways cultural narratives are made real by being inscribed on the body, which she sees as an important concept in Michael Jackson's work.