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Contributors to this issue: Mary Jane Adams, an activist for decades with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, teaches Humanities/Music at Hayes Lewis School on Cutshin Creek in Leslie County, Kentucky. Randy Ball is a photographerfrom Rogersville, Tennessee. Garry Barker is a Berea Collegegraduate andformer staffmember who now lives near his childhood home in Fleming County, Kentucky. The author ofnine books, he works as University Editorfor Morehead State University and writes a column entitled "Head ofthe Holler"for newspapers. Larry Besant serves as Director of Librariesfor Morehead State University. He has published on muskiefishing and library science and collects Jack London books. H. Tyler Blethen is Professor ofHistory and Director ofthe Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. His research interests are in the migration ofthe Scotch-Irish to Appalachia and the pioneer settlement of the region. He is the author oftwo books and working on another. Blossom Brosi, a secondary school teacher, is currently working on a Master's Degree in Gifted Education at Eastern Kentucky University. Bill Brown teaches in Nashville and lives in Greenbrier, Tennessee. He has publishedfour books of poetry and a textbook and has been a Scholar in Poetry at Bread Loaf, and a Fellowfor the Tennessee Arts Commission and at the Virginia Centerfor the Creative Arts. Joyce Compton Brown teaches English at Gardner-Webb University in Bowling Springs, North Carolina. Her scholarship and poetry have been widely published and her banjo playing and ballad singing widely praised. Katherine Stripling Byer has publishedfour books ofpoetry, most recently, Catching Light. A native of Southwestern Georgia, she has lived near Cullowhee, North Carolina,for thirty years and has published her poetry in The Hudson Review, Poetry and Shenandoah. Tina Rae Collins is the author offour books and is currently working on a series ofchildren's books. She worksfor the Brushy Fork Institute, part of the Berea College Appalachian Center. Renee' Critcher, a native of Watauga County, North Carolina, is a prize-winning clog dancer who works as a children's librarianfor the Wilkes County Schools. This is herfirst published poem. Grace Toney Edwards directs the Appalachian Regional Studies Center at Radford University where she teaches Appalachian Studies and English. She is the editor ofthe Literature section ofthe Encyclopedia of Appalachia,forthcomingfrom the University ofTennessee Press. Chris Green is the editor of Wind, a literary magazine, and a PhD student at the University of Kentucky. His daughter, Eleanor, was born this year. Lisa Y. Gross, a native of East Bernstadt, Kentucky, handles media relations for the Kentucky Department ofEducation. Her writing has been previously published in Kentucky Monthly. She received bachelors and master's degreesfrom Morehead State University. Judith Victoria Hensley teaches science at the Wallins School in Harlan County, Kentucky. She and her students are best known for saving Black Mountain, Kentucky's highest peak, from stripmining afew years ago. Jane Hicks is an elementary school teacher who lives in her native Upper East Tennessee. Both her quilts and her poems have won many awards. HO Stephen M. Holt teaches at Russell High School in Greenup County, Kentucky, and at Ohio University Southern in !ronton, Ohio. Late Mowing, hisfirst poetry collection, is in print. Ron Houchin, a retired high school teacher, was raised in Huntington, West Virginia, and now lives across the River in Ohio. His poetry has been published in two books and in literary magazines. Silas House is the author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves, both published by Algonquin. Afrequent contributor to "All Things Considered," House lives in Lily, Kentucky, with his wife and two daughters and is at work on his third novel. Clara Keyes is the Special Collections Librarian for Morehead State University. The author of Larkspur Press: A Descriptive Bibliography, she practices sustainableforestry andfruitfarming Walter Lane is a scruffy old man with afunny cap. He lives down the creekfrom the Raccoon Post Office in Pike County, Kentucky. His work has appeared in Appalachian Heritage often. John Lang is the editor of The Iron Mountain Review. He teaches American literature at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia, and is the author of Understanding Fred Chappell. Jennifer McDaniels is afree-lancejournalist and photographer who lives in Nolansburg, Kentucky, where she was raised...