Contributors to this issue

Contributors to this issue: Evelyn Bales lives in Kingsport, Tennessee, where she is a poet and a teacher in the Sullivan County School System. Randy Ball lives in Rogersville, Tennessee, where he is a photographer and craftsman. His photos are also on pages 34, 58 and 62. Martha Billips is an assistant professor ofEnglish at Transylvania University. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the works ofHarriette Arnow. Orna Boyd is a short story writer and housewifefrom Cana, Virginia. George Brosi is proprietor ofAppalachian Mountain Books and teaches English at UK, EKU, and in Kentucky's community college system. G.C. Coulton served as associate editor of'Coal Today Magazinefor six years. He now writes a monthly feature for Coal People Magazine and works on a collection ofshort stories. Jamie Griggs Tevis, originally from Madison County, Kentucky, lives in Athens, Ohio. Elmer Gray is dean of graduate studies and research and a professor of plant genetics at Western Kentucky University. Silas D. House, London, Kentucky, is a writer ofpoetry andfiction. Art Jester is a columnist with the Lexington Herald-Leader. Loyal Jones has authored numerous books, monographs and articles concerning traditional music and musicians, Appalachian humor, and the religious culture ofthe southern mountain region. Gordon McKinney is an historian and director ofBerea College's Appalachian Center. David Nelson is a professor and chairman of Berea College's Department of History. Ann W. Olson is a photographer living in Olive Hill, Kentucky. DavidAllen Payne halesfrom Clear Creek, in Rockcastle county, Kentucky, but now lives in Battle Creek, Michigan. Ralph Price is a Kentuckian and former tobacco farmer who now lives in Gardner, Colorado, where he is a photographer. The pig photo is his. John Quinnett isfrom Bryson City, North Carolina. Lynn Sadler lives in Sanford, North Carolina, where she writes poetry, drama, and shortfiction as well as runs a small press. She is aformer college president. Nancy Sather is a botanist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and aformer staffmember at the Hindman and Pine Mountain Settlement Schools. Marianne Worthington teaches in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Cumberland Colige in Willimsburg, Kentucky. 92 ...