Grace Tiffany has been a professor of Shakespeare at Western Michigan University since 1995, and has spoken as an invited lecturer at a number of colleges and universities, including Wheaton College in Chicago and the University of Salamanca in Spain. Before moving to Michigan she taught for five years at the University of New Orleans and for one year at Fordham University in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Notre Dame. She and her family live in Kalamazoo, Michigan.