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Contributors to This Issue Sheila Kay Adams, a native of Sodom, in the North Carolina mountains, is a celebrated traditional ballad singer and also the author of the novel, My Old True Love, and a collection of stories, Come Go Home With Me. Warren Brunner is a photographer whose images have graced the simple living calendars of Appalachia Science in the Public Interest for years as well as several important books, includingAppalachian ValuesbyLoyalJones andMountain Holiness:APhotographic Narrative co-authored by Deborah Vansau McCauley. He lives in Berea, Kentucky. Warren J. Carson chairs the English Department at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg. He lives in his hometown, Tryon, North Carolina. His work has appeared in African American Review, Southern Literary Journal and other venues. E. Gail Chandler is a native of Gray Hawk, Kentucky, who spent three years in the Marine Corps and became the first female deputy warden for a male prison in Kentucky and later directed a halfway house for adult male felons. She currently lives in Shelbyville, Kentucky. She is the author of Sunflowers on Market Street. Michael Chitwood was raised in Rocky Mount, Virginia, and is a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has published four volumes of poetry and one collection of essays. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, The Georgia Review and other publications. Billy C. Clark is Writer-in-Residence at Longwood College inVirginia and the founder of Kentucky Writing and Virginia Writing, literary magazines serving the youth of those states. He is the author of fourteen books. Matt Collinsworth grew up on White Oak Creek in Magoffin County, Kentucky, and now serves as the Director of the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead. His work has appeared in Poetry, Limestone and other publications. Claude Lafie Crum was born and raised in Floyd County, Kentucky, educated at Alice Lloyd College, EKU and MTSU and now teaches at Alice Lloyd. Douglas Duff (1947-2003) grew up in Decoy, Kentucky, where his parents, Frankie and Lionel Duff, were widely viewed as exemplary teachers in a two-room school. Later his father served as Director of Hindman Settlement School. Katie Fallon recently received an MFA from West Virginia University and currently teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech. Sidney SaylorFarrgrew up onStoney ForkofStraightCreekinBellCounty, Kentucky, and is the author of seven books. She was editor ofAppalachian Heritage from 1985 until 1999. Lucy Flood is a recent graduate of Stanford University who has been taking creative writing classes at EKU with Silas House and Hal Blythe. She plans to enter an MA program at the University of Texas this fall. This is her first published work. 102 Connie Jordan Green is the author of Emmy and The War at Home. Anative ofEastern Kentucky, she grew up inOakRidge, Tennessee, and now lives on a nearby farm. Amanda Hayes was born and raised in Southeastern Ohio and is currently working on a masters degree at Ohio University. This is her first published book review. John Lang is Professor of English at Emory & Henry College in Virginia where he also edits The Iron Mountain Review. He is the author of Understanding Fred Chappell and scholarly essays on Wendell Berry, William Styron, Robert Morgan and other writers. Christopher D. Mabelitini was born and raised in Harlan County, Kentucky, but now works in a library in Fairfax, Virginia, where he recently earned an MFA from George Mason University. Jeanne McDonald is the author of Water Dreams and the co-author with her husband, Fred Brown, of The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith and Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Its Writers. She lives in Knoxville. Michael McFee grew up inAsheville, North Carolina, and now teaches at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of sevenbooks ofpoetry and the editor of three collections of poetry. Robert Morgan's third novel, Gap Creek, became an Oprah Winfrey selection and catapulted him into national prominence. A native of western North Carolina, he teaches at Cornell University and is at work on a non-fiction book about Daniel Boone. Ted Olson has been a National Park Service Ranger for both...

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