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 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 |