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Contributors in this Issue Maggie Anderson's most recent book is entitled Cold Comfort (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986). A West Virginia native, she has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania State University. Carolyn Bertram says, "I am a typist for a court reporter and an active member of Scribblers, a small writing group, from Monticello, Kentucky." She has been published in children's magazines. George Brosi owns and operates the Appalachian Bookstore in Berea and publishes the bimonthly Appalachian Mountain Books. He also sells books through mail orders to clients in all parts of the country. If readers need more information about any of the listings, write him at 123 Walnut Street, Berea, KY 40403. Linda P. Burggraf is a poet, playwright, and re-entry student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Jacqueline Burnside, a native of Athens, Alabama, graduated from Berea College and is completing work on her dissertation (Yale University) which is about interracial education in the 19th century at Berea College. Jo Carson is associated with the Road Company, a local theater group in Johnson City, Tennessee. Her poems have been published and some of her plays and theatrical pieces have been produced. Lillie D. Chaffin, an Appalachian native relocated in Florida, says: "My work has appeared widely, in more than 300 different journals, magazines, textbooks and anthologies." Shirley R. Chafin is chairperson of the English Department at Johnson Central High School in Paintsville, Kentucky. She is a published poet. Pauline B. Cheek says ofherself: "Between my birth in Chapel Hill and present life in Mars Hill, North Carolina, I have lived in two worlds—the country and town, the unlettered and the academic—and the tension between the two shows me the universal in Appalachia." Wilma Dykeman, the author of three novels, seven books of non-fiction, and a column for the Knoxville, Tennessee News-Sentinel is a North Carolina native who lives in Newport, Tennessee. Grace Toney Edwards is Professor of English, Chairperson of the Appalachian Studies Program and Director of the Highland Summer Conference at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. Katherine Elberfeld grew up in North Georgia and now lives in Richmond, Kentucky. A journalist, essayist, and short story writer, she has just completed her first book-length manuscript, a novel. Connie J. Green, Lenoir City, Tennessee, has had juvenile fiction, poetry and essays published. She says "The Mother's Story" was written after she had re-read James Still's Jack and the Wonder Bean. Dorothy Ellen Holt of Klamath Falls, Oregon, has written under the pseudonym "Samantha Clementine." Her autobiographical sketch picks up from the one published in the 1976 summer issue of Appalachian Heritage. Sharyn J. Hyatt holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Clemson University. Her illustrations were submitted especially to accompany the article by Elaine Palenica. George Ella Lyon's latest works include Mountain, achapbookofpoetry, two children's books, FatherTime and the Day Boxes and A Regular Rolling Noah. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky. 95 Deborah Vansau McCauley grew up in southeastern Ohio. She is a Ph.D. candidate from Columbia University, and is working on her dissertation pertaining to Appalachian mountain religion. Gretchen McCroskey is taking a break from teaching junior high English in Bristol, Virginia, to write and study. Her poetry has appeared in regional publications. Betty McKnight, a freshman at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, has had one poem published in Jar, a university publication. Janice Townley Moore's poetry has been in various periodicals and anthologies. She is amember ofthe English Department at Young Harris College in North Georgia. Mary Ann Murray, Director of Special Programs at Berea College, has a long-time interest in Appalachian Studies and has taught college courses in that field. Elizabeth H. Nelson Uves in Richmond, Kentucky. She has a degree in fine arts from the University of North Carolina and studied at Corcoran in Washington, D. C. Elaine Fowler Palencia, Champaign, Illinois, has been working on a series of interconnected short stories set in eastern Kentucky for about three years. Bonnie Michael Pratt is a poet and freelance writer from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has been published in...

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