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Contributors to this issue: Bo Ball is a Virginian living and writing in Decatur, Georgia Randy Ball is a photographer and musicianfrom Rogersville, Tennessee George Brosi is a college English teacher and proprietor ofAppalachian Mountain Books Fred Carlisle is a professor ofEnglish at VPI, in Blacksburg, Virginia Tina Rae Collins is a Pikeville, Kentucky, native and office managerfor Berea's Brushy Fork Institute Claude Lafie Crum holds degrees from Alice Lloyd College and Eastern Kentucky University, where he teaches English. C. Hood Frazier is an Associate professor of English at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia Deirdre H. Gage is a Kentuckian, a writer and an advertising account supervisor in Chicago Steve Green is afiddler, afolklorist and director of the Western Folk Life Center in Elko, Nevada Jonathan Greene is proprietor ofthe Gnomon Press, in Frankfort, Kentucky Robert Bruce Greene is a student of traditional music and a fiddler from Burnsville, North Carolina (Hear hisfiddling on track 2 of the Appalachian Heritage CD) LoyalJones is a writer, a scholarand one ofthe most respected voices in Appalachian studies. Walter Lane is a mental health care professional and writerfrom Pike County, Kentucky Charles May is a native ofJohnson County, Kentucky, and a professor at California State University ofLong Beach William Miller is a professor of English at York College, in Pennsylvania, and has just published his third collection ofpoetry Jim Minick teaches at Radford University and works with the Appalachian Teachers' Network. He won AWs Plattner Awardfor excellence in writing in 1997. Donna Morgan is director ofcommunicationsfor Berea's Brushy Fork Institute Jay Morgan is a doctoral candidate in English at the University ofKentucky Marshall Myers is a professor ofEnglish at Eastern Kentucky University Ralph Price is a Kentucky émigré to Colorado, where he is an artist Virginia Redfield is a retired literature teacher who lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina Robert M. Rennick is a native ofFloyd County, Kentucky, a sociologist, and afolklorist Jan Zlotnik Schmidt is a professor ofEnglish at the State University ofNew York at New Paltz Barbara Smith is a poet andfiction writerfrom Philippi, West Virginia Sarah Stockton isfrom Morgantown, Indiana, and a senior majoring in Spanish at Berea Shirley Uphouse is a fledgling writer living in the mountains ofNorth Carolina and a member of the North Carolina Writers Network West. Paula Wells is afree lance writer and a graduate of the University ofKentucky, retired after almost thirty years at a steel mill Jane B. Wilson is thefaculty editorfor "Echoes and Images" at Northeast State Technical Community College in Tennessee Marianne Worthington is a professor at Cumberland College, in Williamsburg, Kentucky, and the reviews editorfor Now & Then magazine 100 ...

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