book, Appalachian Patterns, has recently been republished. He teaches Shakespeare and fiction writing at Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, Georgia.
is a photographer and musician from Rogersville, Tennessee.
teaches creative writing at Appalachian State University. His first novel, East Liberty, was recently published.
traveled the South for thirty-five years, representing a manufacturer of elevated water towers. He is also a member and past president of the Knoxville Dickens Society.
is the proprietor of Appalachian Mountain Books and an English professor with Kentucky's community colleges.
is a writer and magazine editor from Pike County, Kentucky.
is an Appalachian expatriate living in rural France.
is from Alcaton, Kentucky, and recently recieved the Academy of American Poets Award for the second time.
is an elementary school teacher in Lee County, Kentucky.
is from Draper, Virginia. Her first book, To Have and To Hold, is due out early this year.
is a retired Marine Corps Sergeant Major with a Ph.D. in Education.
is a respected author and authority on Appalachian religion, history and humor.
is a writer in residence at the University of Baltimore.
is a native of Johnson County, Kentucky, has taught at Cal State Long Beach for thirty years.
is a professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
is an aspiring writer and Berea College graduate, published here for the first time.
lives and works in South Charleston, West Virginia.
is an English teacher at Highland School of Technology and a part-time instructor at UNC-Charlotte.
is a Kentucky farmer now living the artist's life in snowy Colorado.
lives near Memphis, Tennessee, where she is a journalist and freelance writer.
is a Romanian-born resident of Lexington, Kentucky, and a student at Berea.
is a Wisconsinite who appreciates the beauty and the challenge of East Tennessee's Mountains.
is a retired teacher and an antiques dealer in Somerset, Kentucky.
is known as the "Lady on the Bicycle" in her town of Batavia, Illinois, where she works with the American Cancer Society
is a West Virginian currently living in Albany, Georgia.
