Contributors

Contributors BIRGIT ARVIN, Clio, Michigan, has been published in various journals. She grew up in Western North Carolina. BOB HENRY BABER, a published poet, has recently accepted a teaching position at Southeast Community College in Cumberland, Kentucky . DONALD F. BLANFORD, a Virginia native, is an orthopedic surgeon living in Ohio. He is a published author. LINDA P. BURGGRAF, Knoxville, Tennessee, has had poetry published in over thirty journals and anthologies. GRACE CASH has been writing since she was fourteen. She lives in Flowery Branch, Georgia, and is the author of two novels. CAROL COLLIER, Wendell, North Carolina, is the office manager of The Independent and freelances in her spare time. CAROL L. EDWARDS, a Virginia native, says that she's proud to "be a mountaineer." ALICE ERVINE's work is appearing for the first time in Appalachian Heritage. She resides in Danville, West Virginia. JOANNE JOHNSTON FRANCIS, Tacoma, Washington, grew up in West Texas and North Carolina. She is a published author. WADE HALL's work has appeared in various magazines, journals and anthologies. He is Professor of English at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky. JOSEPH HARRIS, Aiken, South Carolina, is appearing for the first time in Appalachian Heritage . WAYNE HOGAN, Cookeville, Tennessee, is a poet, artist, and photographer. His work has appeared in regional and national publications. DAVID HOLCOMBE teaches at Blue Ridge Communtiy College, Hat Rock, North Carolina. This is his first appearance in Appalachian Heritage . ROBERT F. HULL JR., native of Welch, West Virginia, is currently Dean of the Emmanuel School in Johnson City, Tennessee. JOAN KYLES lives in Forest City, North Carolina . This is her first appearance in Appalachian Heritage. JEFF MANN resides in Morgantown, West Virginia . This is his first appearance in Appalachian Heritage. SHARON BROWN MCCONNELL is curator of the Kentucky Collection at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. LLEWELLYN MCKERNAN, is a poet and children's book writer. She lives in Marshall, West Virginia. BETTY MCKNIGHT, Lexington, Kentucky, appeared in the women's issue of Appalachian Heritage two years ago. WALTER M. ODUM teaches history at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky and lives in the Berea area. DIANA R. OLSEN currently a student at Berea College recently won the Academy of American Poets college prize at Berea. EARL PALMER, a Virginia photographer, is a long-time friend of Berea College and Appalachian Heritage. JUANITA KNUCKLES PENCE, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been published in Cincinnati newspapers and magazines. VIRGINIA FERRILL PILAND lives in Berea, Kentucky. She is a quilt artist whose exhibits have won both national and international awards. 78 RITA SIMS QUILLEN, Hilton, Virginia, is the author of Looking for Native Ground: Contemporary Apppalachian Poetry. JEANNIE REED, native of Virginia, is making her second appearance in Appalachian Heritage . HARRY ROBIE teaches in the Department of English at Berea College. SHELBA COLE ROBISON, Laguna Beach, California, is Professor of Creative Writing at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California. JENNIFER E. SMITH resides in Washington, D.C., and does freelance writing. The Reverend Davidson The preacher from the next farm slowed his truck beside me on the hot grey road, and, as I climbed in, we stretched our faces in greeting. "Are you married, are you happy?" he asked in one jovial gasp, to which I answered, "Well, I'm happy..." leaving the statement open like the fields where we pastured our horses and where I danced like a mare foal. I couldn't explain the exquisiteness of tall timothy and of the thorny sweetness of blackberries in the summer heat from which he had been kind enough to rescue me in an air-conditioned pickup. -Diana R. Olsen MICHAEL THOMPSON is a Porcelain Restoration Artist in Berea. RAY TURNER, librarian for the Southeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center in Hazard, Kentucky, teaches children's literature for Alice Lloyd College, Pippa Passes, Kentucky . TOM R. WALTERS, Leesburg, Florida, had his Clay County Cemetery Records, Vol.1 published last year and hopes to follow with Vol. II soon. MIRIAM L. WOOLFOLK, past president of Kentucky State Poetry Society, has appeared in regional and international publications. DiIIy Beans (for my sister) On the last dog day, frantic last-minute phone calls in search of dillweed. Violently red...