Contributors to this issue

Contributors to this issue: Christina Adams is a native of Scott County, Virginia, now living in Newport Beach, California, where she recently graduatedfrom CaI Sate Michael Dale Adkins is a Huntington, West Virginia, native, a deputy sheriff of Cabell County, WV, and a captain in the U.S. Army reserve Bo Ball is a Virginia native living in Decatur, Georgia. His book Appalachian Patterns will be republished in January, 2002 Randy Ball is a photographer and musicianfrom Rogersville, Tennessee Danny Patrick Barbare lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife. He is currently working on a degree in graphic design George Brosi operates Appalachian Mountain Books and teaches English for UK, EKU and Kentucky's community college system Jeanne Bryner is a nurse, a graduate ofKent State Honors College and author of two books Michael Croley was born and raised in Corbin, Kentucky, and recently completed for his undergraduate thesis a collection ofshort stories entitled A Place To Cross C. Hood Frazier is an Associate professor ofEnglish at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia Wanda Fries is an English teacher at Somerset (Kentucky) Community College and has received the Al Smith Fellowship Awardforfiction William Gage is a retired home builder and developer living in Naples, Florida Diana Hart spent eight years as a journalist in Texas. This is her first publication of a nonnewspaper story Hank Hudepohl is a Kentucky native who graduatedfrom Harvard in 1992 and then spentfour years on a Navy aircraft carrier Kim Jaxtheimer is originallyfrom Virginia, but is living in Sun Valley, Idaho, where she will begin a Ph.D. program in thefall. Marie R. Justice is an eighty-year native ofPikeville, Kentucky, who has publishedfour books Jane Eblen Keller grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, has lived in Paris, Boston and upstate New York, and is now a writer in residence at the University ofBaltimore M.J. Kinggraduatedfrom Berea College in 1994 and now works as a technical writer in Kingsland, Georgia John Langan is a doctoral candidate in English at the City University ofNew York Jeff Daniel Marion is a teacher of literature and poet in residence at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee Gordon B. McKinney is a professor ofHistory and director ofBerea College's Appalachian Center William Miller is a professor ofEnglish at York College in Pennsylvania. He has just published his third collection ofpoetry Norman Minnick is a Louisville native, currently living in South Florida and pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing J. Morgan is a doctoral candidate in English at the University ofKentucky Gregg Neikirk is a professor ofEnglish at Westfield State College in Massachusetts Ralph Price moved to Coloradofrom Allen County, Kentucky. He has been a teacher, a steel worker, a zoo keeper and a dog trainer Pia Seagrave lives in Virginia with herfamily and is a professor ofEnglish at Gallaudet, the nation's only universityfor hearing-impaired students Jay Solka lives and works in New York City Dixie Thacker is building a home with her husband and their menagerie ofpets in Sissonville, West Virginia, when she's not taking classes at WV State Ruth Trimble is a life-long resident of Kingsport, Tennessee, a U.S. Postal Service retiree and a researcher in genealogy and archeology Al White is a musician, music teacher and realtor in Berea Nancy Compton Williams has recently retiredfrom teaching high school English in Huntsville, Alabama Marianne Worthington teaches at Cumberland College, in Williamsburg, Kentucky, and is reviews editorfor Now & Then magazine 108 ...