Contributors to this issue

Contributors to this issue Bo Ball is Professor Emeritus of English at Agnes Scott College. A native of Council, Virginia, his stories and essays have won him two Pushcart Prizes. He is the author of Appalachian Patterns, a story collection. Brenda Bell, a native Kentuckian, is Associate Director of the Center for Literacy Studies, University ofTennessee, and lives inMaryville. She has written articles about adulteducation and southern labor history and served as co-editor of We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change by Paulo Freiré and Myles Horton. Christine Christianson grew up in Carroll County, Virginia, and received bachelor's and master's degrees from Radford University. She now lives in Wytheville where she teaches English at George Wythe High School. This is her first published work. Mark DeFoe is a recipient of a West Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist's Fellowship for 2003. He has recent work in Poetry and other publications. His latest poetry collection, The Green Chair, will be out soon. DeFoe teaches at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Julie Dunlop grew up in Vienna, Virginia, with close ties to her mother's kin in the Wise County town of Appalachia, Virginia. She teaches English at the Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute. Sidney Saylor Farr was editor of Appalachian Heritage from the Winter of 1985 through the Summer of 1999. The author of seven books, three from university presses, she grew up on Stoney Fork in Bell County, Kentucky, and is retired from Berea College. She lives in Berea, Kentucky. Tom Frazier is a native of Evarts, Kentucky, and a Professor of English at Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky. His recent publication credits include an article in the Companion to Southern Literature. Paul Hicks grew up in Olive Hill, Kentucky, and received an M.A. in English from Eastern Kentucky University. After retiring from the U.S. Army, he has recently returned to Carter County to raise a family and get back to writing. David Huddle, a native of Ivanhoe, Virginia, has taught English at the University of Vermont since 1971. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Playboy, TriQuarterly, Kenyan Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and Poetry. He is the author of two novels, several collections of short stories and poetry and A David Huddle Reader. Leatha Kendrick has lived most of her adult like in Floyd County, Kentucky. The author of two poetry collections, she was the screenwriter for A Lasting Thing for the World, a documentary of the life and work of Doris Ulmann. John Lang teaches American literature at Emory & Henry College where he coordinates the college's annual Literary Festival and edits The Iron Mountain Review. He is the author of Understanding Fred Chappell. Parks Lanier teaches Appalachian Literature at Radford University in Virginia where he works with the Highland Summer Conference and the SeIu Writers' Retreat. A former 102 President of the Appalachian Writers Association, Lanier is the program chair for the 2005 Appalachian Studies Association Conference. He is the editor of The Poetics ofAppalachian Space. Susan Lefler is a freelance writer and contributing editor for Smoky Mountain Living. Her work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Icarus, Lights in the Mountains and other publications. She is currently working on a photographic history of Brevard, North Carolina, for Arcadia Publishing Company's Images in America series. Jeff Mann grew up in Covington, Virginia, and Hinton, West Virginia, and received degrees in forestry and English from WVU. He teaches English and Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech and is the author of three poetry chapbooks and collections of poetry and essays. Jeff Daniel Marion's eighth poetry collection—not counting four chapbooks—Ebbing and Flowing Springs, was recently named not only the Book of the Year by the Appalachian Writers Association but also the national winner in poetry by the Independent Publishers Association. He recently retired from teaching at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Annette Coleman McGrew was born and raised on a Greene County, Tennessee, farm. She recently left that farm and a job teaching at West Green High School to enter a Ph.D. program...