Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS HARRIETTE SIMPSON ARNOW is best known, perhaps, for her novel, The Dollmaker. Blessed . . . Blessed is an unpublished story from the Harriette Amow Collection, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Library. Used with permission of the University of Kentucky and the trustees of the Harriette S. Arnow Estate. MARILOU AWIAKTA, Cherokee/Appalachian poet and essayist, is a native of East Tennessee. The U.S. Information Agency chose her books, Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet and Rising Fawn and the Fire Mystery, for the 1985-86 global tour of American writers. BOB HENRY BABER, currently Director of Programs at Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, is the author of several books and has given presentations to groups across the country. HUGH BAILEY, designer and artist at the University of Tennessee Publications Services, did our front cover. He is a member of the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild. GARRY BARKER, formerly assistant director of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, director of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, and vice-president of the Berea Craft Festival, is consultant /juror/lecturer and writer for crafts magazines, as well as the author of three books of fiction. BILL BEST, after directing the Upward Bound Program at Berea College for twenty-three years, will be teaching basic college courses full-time this coming year. HARRY BROWN is a published poet. Ii 1986 he won the Blaine R. Hall Award for the best poems in Kentucky Poetry Review. He teaches English at Eastem Kentucky University in Richmond. BOYD CARR is Artist-in-Residence to the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia, a poet, cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator ... He lives in Charleston, West Virginia. LILLIE CHAFFIN, former Poet Laureate of Kentucky and editor of Twigs and Reaching, is the author of several books of poetry and has been published in a wide variety of periodicals. BILLY C. CLARK is a noted American author of 12 novels and many short stories and poems. His stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories. He is Writer-in-Residence at Longwood College, and founding editor of Virginia Writing. RODGER CUNNINGHAM, the author of Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience, lives in London, Kentucky, and teaches English at Sue Bennett College. WILMA DYKEMAN, North Carolina native and resident of Newport, Tennessee, is best known for her two novels, The Tall Woman and The Far Family. In addition to three novels she has written several nonfiction books. JOHN EGERTON, author of Generations, has been writing about Appalachia and the South as a freelancer since 1971. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. DENISE GIARDINA, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, was bom in Bluefield, West Virginia, and grew up in a coal camp. She is the author of Storming Heaven, a much-acclaimed novel set in a coal camp. JAMES B. GOODE, the son and grandson of coal miners, grew up in Benham, a southeastern Kentucky coal mining town. He is currently teaching at Southeastern Community College at Cumberland, Kentucky . He is the author of two published books of poetry. JONATHAN GREENE is the author of a dozen books, runs Gnomen Press, and does freelance design and production work for various publishers. 110 RICHARD HAGUE, a northeastern Ohio native, teaches in the Cincinnati School Systems. He writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has one book of poetry, A Week of Nights Downriver. WADE HALL, a published writer and popular television host, is a Professor of English at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky. ELLESA CLAY HIGH is the author of Past Titan Rock. She is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University. WAYNE HOGAN is a poet, artist, and photographer whose work has appeared in regional and national publications. He lives near Cookeville, Tennessee . LOYAL JONES is the Director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College, teaches Appalachian courses, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books. GEORGE ELLA LYON is the published author of two children's books, a chapbook of poetry, and has a play, Braids-bom which "Memory" was excerptedcurrently being aired on National Public Radio in Kentucky . TOM MCKNIGHT heads up the Special Services Program and teaches English at Southwest Virginia Community College in Richlands. A creative writer, he also writes a...