Featured
Authors
Since 2002, each issue of Appalachian Heritage has focused on a different regional writer by featuring literary criticism and literary biography about the author as well as a sampling of his or her works.
| Winter 2013 40th Anniversary | Various Authors |
| Fall 2012 | Nikki Giovanni |
| Summer 2012 | Breece D’J Pancake |
| Spring 2012 | Harriette Simpson Arnow |
| Winter 2012 | Mark Powell |
| Fall 2011 | Frank X Walker |
| Summer 2011 | Lee Maynard |
| Spring 2011 | Karen Salyer McElmurray |
| Winter 2011 | Cormac McCarthy |
| Fall 2010 | James Still |
| Summer 2010 | George Ella Lyon |
| Spring 2010 | C. E. Morgan |
| Winter 2010 | Pinckney Benedict |
| Fall 2009 | Robert J. Conley |
| Summer 2009 | Jim Wayne Miller |
| Spring 2009 | Pamela Duncan |
| Winter 2009 | Jayne Anne Phillips |
| Fall 2008 | Don West |
| Summer 2008 | African American Appalachian writers |
| Spring 2008 | Mildred Haun |
| Winter 2008 | Billy Edd Wheeler |
| Fall 2007 | Thomas Wolfe |
| Summer 2007 | Al Stewart |
| Spring 2007 | Earl Hamner |
| Winter 2007 | Darnell Arnoult |
| Fall 2006 | Meredith Sue Willis |
| Summer 2006 | Jeff Mann |
| Spring 2006 | Crystal Wilkinson |
| Winter 2006 | Mary Lee Settle (1918-2005) |
| Fall 2005 | Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) |
| Summer 2005 | Gurney Norman |
| Spring 2005 | Michael McFee |
| Winter 2005 | Gretchen Moran Laskas |
| Fall 2004 | Sharyn McCrumb |
| Summer 2004 | Robert Morgan |
| Spring 2004 | Silas House |
| Winter 2004 | Lisa Alther |
| Fall 2003 | Jeff Daniel Marion |
| Summer 2003 | Fred Chappell |
| Spring 2003 | James B. Goode |
| Winter 2003 | Lee Smith |
| Fall 2002 | Ron Rash |
