is a photographer and musician from Rogersville, Tennessee.
is a proprietor of Appalachian Mountain Books and an English professor
is a professor of English at Gardner-Webb College, in Boiling Springs, North Carolina..
is a graduate of Kent State Honors College and has published two books in addition to working as a nurse.
is currently working on a collection of essays that examine the relationship between the spiritual and natural worlds. She resides in Toledo, Ohio.
is an administrative assistant for Brushy Fork Institute and the author of four books.
is the pseudonym of Robert Lane, a West Virginian retired from the U.S. Army to Binic, in France.
of Ravenna, Ohio, is a recent graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She is currently working on a collection about the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1920-21.
is a professor of communication at Cumberland College, in Williamsburg.
is a teacher, psychologist, and writer. She currently has two collections, Fountains in Common Places and Searching for Universal Words.
lives in Haywood County, North Carolina.
of Sherman Oaks, California, has been featured in ByLine and The Louisville Review with several stories.
is a teacher and poet residing in Knoxville, Tennessee.
is a poet, short story writer, and children's book author who has lived and worked in the Appalachian region for many years.
is a Berea Alumna and retired teacher.
is a professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
and have co-authored several articles and are featured in the anthology Mist on the Mountain.
has published two collections of Appalachian fiction, Small Caucasian Woman and Brier County.
teaches literature and women's studies at Marshall University.
lives and works in the New River Valley in southwestern Virginia and currently teaches American literature and creative writing at Radford University;
is a native of east Tennessee and has won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry for her first book, Old and New Testaments. She currently resides in Oberlin, Ohio.
is a free-lance writer, editor, sports enthusiast, medical ethicist and Emerita Professor of Literature and Writing at Alderson-Braoddus College in Philippi, West Virginia.
was born and raised in New York City and has had a close affinity with eastern Kentucky since serving with the Frontier Nursing Service in Leslie County as a social worker.
has an MFA Degree in writing from George Mason University and currently teaches at Wake Technical Community College in Raliegh, North Carolina.
is a former television news reporter who lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
teaches in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Cumberland College in Williamsburg.