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Contributors to this issue: Bo Ball's book, Appalachian Patterns, has recently been re-published. He teaches Shakespeare andfiction writing at Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, Georgia Randy Ball is a photographer and musicianfrom Rogersville, Tennessee Joseph Bathanti teaches creative writing at Appalachian State University. His first novel, East Liberty, was recently published Frank E. Bourne traveled the South for thirty-five years, representing a manufacturer of elevated water towers. He isalsoa memberandpastpresidentoftheKnoxvilleDickens Society George Brosi is the proprietor ofAppalachian Mountain Books and an English professor with Kentucky's community colleges G.C. Compton is a writer and magazine editorfrom Pike County, Kentucky. Lee Dowdy is an Appalachian expatriate living in rural France. Julie Dunlop isfrom Alvaton, Kentucky, and recently received the Academy ofAmerican Poets Awardfor the second time. Jana Durbin is an elementary school teacher in Lee County, Kentucky Holly Farris's isfrom Draper, Virginia. Herfirst book, To Have and To Hold, is due out early this year Jimmy Carl Harris is a retired Marine Corps Sergeant Major with a Ph.D. in Education. He served in both Vietnam and the Persian Gulf Loyal Jones is a respected author and authority on Appalachian religion, history and humor Jane Eblen Keller is a writer in residence at the University ofBaltimore Charles May, a native ofJohnson County, Kentucky, has taught at CaI State Long Beach for thirty years Marshall Myers is a professor ofEnglish at Eastern Kentucky University AU O'Rourke is an aspiring writer and Berea College graduate, published here for the first time Dave Payne lives and works in South Charleston, West Virginia David E. Poston is an English teacher at Highland School ofTechnology and a part-time instructor at UNC-Charlotte Ralph Price is a Kentuckyfarmer now living the artist's life in snowy Colorado Leigh Ann Roman lives near Memphis, Tennessee, where she is a journalist andfreelance writer Andreea Vilics is a Romanian-bom resident ofLexington, Kentucky, and a student at Berea Barbara Weddle is a Wisconsinite who appreciates the beauty and the challenge of East Tennessee's mountains Laura Weddle is a retired teacher and an antiques dealer in Somerset, Kentucky Cora Mae West is known as the Lady on the Bicycle in her town ofBatavia, Illinois, where she worL· with the American Cancer Society. Chris Wood is a West Virginian currently living in Albany, Georgia. 108 ...

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