Contributors to This Issue
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Wendell Berry is one of America's most distinguished multi-genre writers. His essays, novels, stories, and poetry celebrate the benefits of lives lived attached to the land. He farms with horses on family land on the Kentucky River. His latest poetry collection is Leavings.
Warren J. Carson is Professor of English and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He lives in Tryon, North Carolina, and currently serves as the President of the College Language Association.
E. Gail Chandler grew up in Laurel and Jackson counties in Kentucky, and graduated from Berea College. She has served in the Marine Corps, worked for Kentucky Corrections, directed a half-way house, and is the author of a poetry collection and a nonfiction book.
John P. David is the Director of the Southern Appalachian Labor School and the Chair of the Department of Social Sciences and Public Administration at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. He was involved in the Miners for Democracy movement and lives in Kincaid, West Virginia.
David Edwards, a native of Holland, Michigan, is an English (creative writing) major at Berea College whose primary labor position is with Appalachian Heritage magazine. He also works with Samantha Cole on the College's in-house literary magazine, Carillon.
Sidney Saylor Farr grew up on Stoney Fork in Bell County, Kentucky, and served as editor of Appalachian Heritage from 1985 until 1999. Her most recent book is My Appalachia: A Memoir published by the University Press of Kentucky.
Jesse Graves grew up at Sharp's Chapel, Tennessee, a community settled by his ancestors in the Eighteenth Century. His first poetry teacher at the University of Tennessee was Connie Jordan Green who introduced him to Jeff Daniel Marion and to the poetry of Wendell Berry. Graves studied under Robert Morgan at Cornell Univeristy and now teaches at East Tennessee State University. [End Page 116]
Connie Jordan Green was born in West Virginia, lived for five years in an Eastern Kentucky coal-camp, and then moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Now she lives on a small farm in Loudon County, Tennessee. The author of two youth novels and a poetry chapbook, she continues to teach creative writing at a variety of venues.
Silas House, the featured author of the Spring 2004 issue of Appalachian Heritage, is the author of four novels, two plays, and a book of non-fiction, as well as the editor of several books. He holds the neh Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College.
Lee Howard (1952–2003) grew up in eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, and West Virginia. She worked as a sociologist in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oregon. Her poetry collection, The Last Unmined Vein, was published in 1980. Later this year, MotesBooks will publish Harvest of Fire: New & Collected Works of Lee Howard, edited by George Ella Lyon.
David Huddle is from Ivanhoe, Virginia, and he is currently the Visiting Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, fiction and essays. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Georgia Review, Southern Review, Shenandoah, and Sow's Ear.
Patricia L. Hudson is a life-long resident of Knoxville, Tennessee. A freelance writer, she has been a contributing editor for Americana magazine and written extensively for other magazines. She is the coeditor of Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia and other books.
Brennan M. Laskas is a fourteen-year-old student in Northern Virginia. He comes from a family that has lived in Appalachia for eight generations.
George Ella Lyon grew up in Harlan, Kentucky, and has lived most of her adult life in Lexington, Kentucky. She is the author of forty books for readers of all ages, and makes a living as a freelance writer and teacher.
Jeff Mann, the featured author of the Summer 2006 issue of Appalachian Heritage, grew up in Hinton, West Virginia, and teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech. He won the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for his book, A History of Barbed Wire, but is best known in this region as the author of Loving Mountains...
