Byrd Gibbens
Elizabeth "Byrd" Gibbens was an American historian and professor.
Life
Gibbens was originally from Tyler, Texas, where she was born on June 5, 1936; she grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She became a nun in the Sisters of St. Joseph, but left the order in 1977.she was a professor of English at the University of New Mexico. She also taught at the University of Arkansas.
She died on December 20, 2023.