Contributors to this issue

Contributors to this issue Glade Brosi grew up in Berea, Kentucky, and attended Warren Wilson College. Now twenty-two years old, he has lived on both the North Carolina and the Tennessee side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This is his first published work. Kathryn Stripling Byer of Cullowhee, North Carolina, has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry and is widely published in magazines including Shenandoah and The Georgia Review. Her fourth poetry book is Catching Light. This is her first published short story. Brooke Calton is originally from Henderson County, North Carolina, and presently teaches writing at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She is currently working on her first novel and enrolled in the MFA Program at Queens University in Charlotte. Nan Chase grew up in California but has lived in Boone, North Carolina, for twenty years where her freelance writing has won her three awards for investigative reporting and one for feature writing from the North Carolina Press Association. She also teaches writing at Appalachian State. Billy C. Clark grew up in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, where a bridge across the Big Sandy River is now named for him. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently collections of stories from the University Press of Kentucky, Miss America Kissed Caleb, and from The University of Tennessee Press, By Way of the Forked Stick. Clark was on the original Advisory Board of Appalachian Heritage magazine when Albert Stewart founded it in 1973. Thomas Paige Dalporto is the author of It's Still A Wonder Just Being Here: Photographs and Poems. He has been a photojournalist for newspapers in Beckley and Montgomery, West Virginia. Grace Toney Edwards directs the Appalachian Regional Studies Center at Radford University in Virginia. She is senior editor of Handbook to Appalachia: Introduction to the Region, forthcoming from the University of Tennessee Press. Sidney Saylor Farr, grew up on Stony Fork in Bell County, Kentucky. The author of seven books, she was editor of Appalachian Heritage from 1985 until 1999. She is now retired and living in Berea, Kentucky. 97 Michael Shannon Friedman was raised in Charleston, West Virginia, and now teaches at a Franciscan school in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is working on a scholarly book that delves into the poetry of Charles Wright. Jimmy Carl Harris received first prize last year in the Tennessee Mountain Writers Fiction Contest for the story first printed in this issue. He retired from the U.S. Marines with the rank of Sergeant Major and from Southeastern Louisiana University with the rank of Assistant Professor. He now lives near Birmingham, Alabama. Jane Hicks teaches gifted children in Sullivan County, Tennessee. An avid quilter, she is currently working on a novel that tells the stories of some of the characters who first appeared in her poetry. Shawn Holliday grew up in Williamson, West Virginia. Currently an Assistant Professor of English at Alice Lloyd College in Knott County, Kentucky, Shawn is the author of books of literary criticism on Thomas Wolfe and Lawson Fusao Inada. Terry Dean Hoskins works at Appalachian Computer Services in London, Kentucky, and lives in Happy Hollow in Laurel County. This is his first published work. Silas House grew up in Lily, Kentucky, where he still lives. He is the author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment ofLeaves, and his next novel, The Coal Tattoo, is scheduled for release later this year. He was voted Kentucky's most popular writer in a poll taken by Kentucky Monthly. Teresa Ann Gambrel House was born and raised on Fighting Creek in Knox County, Kentucky, and was the public relations director and credit manager for Lowe's Home Center for several years before taking on the much larger task of being a full-time mother. She lives in Lily with her husband and two daughters. Gretchen Moran Laskas was born in Barbour County, West Virginia, and raised in Pittsburgh. She currently resides in Gainesville, Virginia. Her first novel, The Midwife's Tale, won the 2003 Weatherford Award for outstanding fiction depicting Appalachia. Sam L. Martin grew up in Belle, West Virginia, but now lives at the end of a road in Menifee County...