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Contributors to this issue: Bo Ball was raised in Council, Virginia, and is professor emeritus of English at Agnes Scott College. Ball is the author of a story collection, Appalachian Patterns, and his numerous stories and essays have won him two Pushcart Prizes. Randy Ball, a life-long resident of Rogersville, Tennessee, is a photographer and musician. He works as a lab technician for TRW automotive. Tom Barnes has been on the faculty at the University of Kentucky for fifteen years and serves as the Wildlife Specialist for the Kentucky Extension Service. He is the author of Kentucky's Last Great Places and Gardening For the Birds. Blossom Brosi is currently working on a Master's Degree in Gifted Education at Eastern Kentucky University. Warren J. Carson grew up in the Western North Carolina Mountains. He teaches English at USC-Spartanburg and serves as an Advisory Editor of the College Language Association Journal. S. d. Collins was raised in Morristown, Tennessee, and taught at the Tennessee School for the Deaf for thirteen years. He is currently working on a Ph.D. in Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee. Thomas Paige Dalporto has been a photojournalist for newspapers in Beckley and Montgomery, West Virginia. He is the author of It's Still A Wonder Just Being Here: Photographs and Poems. Jim DeWitt has taught English at all levels - Kindergarten through graduate school - for thirtyone years including a stint at Marietta College right across the Ohio River from West Virginia. He has been published in one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine different literary magazines. Diane Gilliam Fisher grew up in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of a Mingo County, West Virginia, mother and a Johnson County, Kentucky, father. She earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College and has authored two books of poetry. Judith Victoria Hensley teaches science at the Wallins School in Harlan County, Kentucky. She and her students helped save Black Mountain from strip-mining. Shawn Holliday grew up in Williamson, West Virginia. Currently an English teacher at Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky, he is the author of Thomas Wolfe and the Politics ofModernism. This is his first published book review. Stephen M. Holt teaches at Russell High School in Greenup County, Kentucky, and at Ohio University Southern. He is the author of Late Mowing, a poetry collection. Silas House is the author of two novels from Algonquin: Clay's Quilt and A Parchment ofLeaves. He lives with his wife and daughters in Lily, Kentucky, where he was raised. Susan M. heftet lives in Brevard, North Carolina, and works for Smoky Mountain Living magazine. Her award-winning poetry has appeared in Lonzie's Fried Chicken, Asheville Poetry Review, Icarus and The Lyricist. JeffDaniel Marion, a native of Rogersville, Tennessee, recently retired from thirty-five years teaching at Carson-Newman College. He is the author of several poetry books, most recently, Ebbing and Flowing Springs. 102 LeeMaynard grew up in Kenova and Crum, West Virginia. He currentlylives in Cochiti Lake, New Mexico, andwrites regularly for the Reader's Digest and occasionally for Other publications. He is the author of Crum, a novel. Annette Coleman McGrew lives on the same farm where she was raised in Greene County, Tennessee. She teaches high school English and is working on an M.A. in English from East Tennessee State University. This is her first published work. Irene McKinney has served as West Virginia's Poet Laureate since 1994. She lives in Belington where she was raised and teaches at West Virginia Wesleyan. She is the author of four poetry books and recently edited Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia. Lisa Parker was raised in Fauquier County, Virginia, the daughter of a Buchanan County mother. She earned an MFA from Perm State and is currently a law clerk in New York City. She has won poetry prizes named for Allen Tate, Randall Jarrell and Barbara Deming. Rita Sims Quillen is a dealer in raw fur and ginseng, and a part-time distillery operator. In her spare time she teaches English at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. She is the author of a book of Appalachian literary criticism and two poetry...