is the author of four books of poems, most recently Windfall: New and Selected Poems, and the editor of two. Currently she is a professor of English at Kent State University, where she edits the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press.
, a commercial and fine art photographer, heads the Appalachian Photographic Workshops in Asheville, North Carolina. His images have appeared in numerous publications including Time, in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in the book, The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm (2003). The Village Voice said he “may be the most gifted documentary photographer to come out of Appalachia since the Depression.”
is editor of the recent book, More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell and has just published a new book of poetry, Every Insomniac Has A Story to Tell. He teaches creative writing and literature at East Carolina University and is currently completing a book of poetry called Poems of the Manassas Battlefield.
teaches writing and literature at East Carolina University. Her publications include work in Appalachian studies, contemporary poetry, folklore, and Native American identity rhetorics. She lives in Greenville, North Carolina, where she and her husband, Patrick, await the birth of their first child, Antonio.
, the Poet-laureat of North Carolina, grew
up in Canton, North Carolina, and has taught at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro throughout his career. He
is the author of over twenty books in multiple genres, including
A Fred Chappell Reader published by St. Martin’s Press.
His prizes include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from the
Yale University Library and the award for the best foreign
novel from the Academie Francaise.
won the Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship
of Southern Writers, and her short fiction has appeared
in Best American Short Stories, The
O. Henry Awards, and
The Pushcart Prize. In addition to poetry and stories,
she has published translations of classical works, novels,
memoir, and essays, in all over twenty books. She is retired
from teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
and lives on a small farm in Southside Virginia with her
husband, fiction writer Burke Davis III.
is Professor of English at Appalachian State University. She creates films and cd’s and is the author of African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia as well as the entry on Robert Morgan for Twenty-First-Century American Novels. Currently she is working on a video about Morgan.
directs the Writing Center and teaches a senior seminar at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. He is the author of five youth books, including Moon Over Tennessee published by Houghton-Mifflin. His poems and stories have appeared in magazines including Paris Review and Prague Review.
was raised in Ohio and became a telephone installer
as part of a quota for women in non-traditional jobs. In
this capacity she worked out of Wartburg, Tennessee, for
a year. The story in this issue is based on a personal experience
that occurred in the woods near there. She currently is retired
and living in Libby, Montana.
teaches English at Alice Lloyd College
in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. In 1987 the University of Tennessee
Press published his book, Apples
on the Flood: Minority Discourse and Appalachia.
lives in Marion, North Carolina, and teaches at the community college there. Her first book, Blue Ridge Shadows, was published in 2002, and it is soon to be followed by the upcoming Headin’ to Graceland.
is a writer and teacher currently living in southern California. Returning to her southern roots, Ezzard spends her summers on her parent’s vineyard in the Northern Georgia Appalachians.
grew up on Stoney Fork of Straight Creek in Bell County, Kentucky. The author of seven books, she was editor of Appalachian Heritage from 1985 until 1999. She is now retired and living in Berea, Kentucky.
, the Poet-laureate of Virginia, is the author of more than thirty books and the editor of another nineteen, including Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments, Death of the Fox, and An Evening Performance. He is now retired from his teaching position at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville.
, a native West Virginian, has published the novels, Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, and Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale. His memoir, Last Mountain Dancer, will be published by Carroll & Graf in September 2004. He serves as Director of the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
is a Knoxville poet whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Atlanta Review, and The Georgia Review. She has been awarded two literary fellowships from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Of her tribute to Scott Christianson, she says, “Scott was a light-bringer, scholar, clown, a deep and swift human current. Even, dying, he continued to amaze us with his many gifts of fierce heart and spirit.”
had already garnered an enviable literary reputation as first a poet and then a storywriter when his third novel, Gap Creek, was catapulted into national prominence when it became an Oprah Winfrey selection in 2000. A native of rural Henderson County, North Carolina, Morgan teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
practices law at the foot of the Appalachians in the Hudson Valley of New York where she lives with her husband and daughter. Although her stories are widely published, this is her first book review.
is the author of Brightwood, a poetry collection reviewed by George Garrett in this issue of Appalachian Heritage. He has been widely anthologized, most recently in The Best American Short Stories, 2004. Smith lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where he teaches at Washington and Lee and edits Shenandoah.
has written stage plays and screenplays, as well as musicals, including Better Being Bad performed in 2003 at The Minneapolis Fringe Festival, and The Three-Cornered Hat, produced by Houston’s Main Street Theater in 2002. His poems and short stories have appeared in Poetry, Midwest Quarterly and other publications. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
is a retired teacher who lives in West Liberty, Kentucky. She is an avid gardener and grandmother who is constantly honing her poems and stories which have been published in Pegasus and other venues.
teaches English at Gretna High School and pastors the Melville Avenue Baptist Church in Danville, Virginia, while pursing a Masters Degree at Radford University. He is working on a volume of poetic responses to the Psalms of the Old Testament.
lives in the South Toe valley of the Black Mountains of North Carolina, and was raised in Anniston, Alabama. She is currently at work on her first book, a collection of essays on gardening.