Contributors to this issue

Contributors to this issue: Randy Ball is a photographer and musicianfrom Rogersville, Tennessee. George Brosi is the proprietor ofAppalachian Mountain Books and an English professor. Joyce Compton Brown is a professor of English at Gardner-Webb College, in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Jeanne Bryner is a graduate of Kent State Honors College and has published two books in addition to working as a nurse. Holly Burnside is currently working on a collection of essays that examine the relationship between the spiritual and natural worlds. She resides in Toledo, Ohio. Tina Rae Collins is an administrative assistantfor Brushy Pork Institute and the author offour books. Lee Dowdy is the pseudonym of Robert Lane, a West Virginian retired from the U.S. Army to Binic, in France. Diane Gilliam Fisher ofRavenna, Ohio, is a recent graduate ofthe Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She is currently working on a collection about the West Virginia Mine Wars of 1920-21. Gina Herring is a professor ofcommunication at Cumberland College, in Williamsburg. Judy Klare is a teacher, psychologist, and writer. She currently has two collections, Fountains in Common Places and Searching for Universal Words. Brenda Ledford lives in Haywood County, North Carolina. Jerry Mansfield of Sherman Oaks, California, has been featured in ByLine and The Louisville Review with several stories. Linda Parsons Marion is a teacher and poet residing in Knoxville, Tennessee. Llewellyn McKernan is a poet, short story writer, ana children's book author who has lived and worked in the Appalachian regionfor many years. Lou Martin is a Berea Alumna and retired teacher. Marshall Myers is a professor ofEnglish at Eastern Kentucky University. Patricia H. Patteson and Gerald Swick have co-authored several articles and are featured in the anthology Mist on the Mountain. Elaine Fowler Patencia has published two collections of Appalachian fiction, Small Caucasian Woman and Brier Country. Edwina Pendarvis teaches literature and women's studies at Marshall University. Tim Poland lives and works in the New River Valley in southwestern Virginia and currently teaches American literature and creative writing at Radford University. Lynn Powell is a native ofeast Tennessee and has won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry for herfirst book, Old & New Testaments. She currently resides in Oberlin, Ohio. Barbara Smith is afree-lance writer, editor, sports enthusiast, medical ethicist and Emerita Professor ofLiterature and Writingat Alderson-Braoddus College in Philippi, West Virginia. Noel Smith was born and raised in New York City and has had a close affinity with eastern Kentuckysinceservingwith theFrontierNursing Service in Leslie Countyas asocial worker. Rhonda Strickland has an MFA Degree in writingfrom George Mason University and currently teaches at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Corvin Thomas is aformer television news reporter who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Marianne Worthington teaches in the Department ofCommunication and Theatre Arts at Cumberland College in Williamsburg. Ill ...