Contributors in this Issue

CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE PEGGY SUE ALBERHASKY lives in Petaluma, California. Her work has appeared in several periodicals and collections. VICTORIA BARKER is a professor at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee. She has been published several times. SARAH BARNHILL lives and teaches in Western North Carolina. Her fiction has appeared in several publications. HARRY BROWN teaches in the English Department at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky . His poetry has appeared in a variety of publications. GRACE CASH lives in Flowery Branch, Georgia. She has had two novels and numerous short stories and poems published. GARY CASTLE, a disabled coal miner, lives on Ruin Creek in Elliott County, Kentucky. He had one collection of poems, entitled Folks and Fiddles, published in 1977. THOMAS CHAPMAN, a native of Huntington, West Virginia, is currently doing marriage, family and individual counseling in Cynthiana, Kentucky, and working on two booklength manuscripts. KEITH COMBS says his roots are buried deep in Perry County soil but he lives in La Mesa, California. He is retired from the U.S. Navy and the public school system and is presently working on a novel. WILLIAM TERRELL CORNETT taught at Alice Lloyd College for a period of time and is now on the staff of the Hazard Community College in Hazard, Kentucky. MARK DeFOE, a professor at West Virginia Wesleyan and editor of Laurel Review, has seen his own work published in a variety of publications. M. F. DONAKAI says he is an ex-athlete who lives in Boulder, Colorado, and is working towards a B.S. Degree in English. He plans to teach in the mountains of Pennsylvania or Virginia. This is his first time to be published. RICHARD ETTELSON lives on a farm in Monroe County, West Virginia. His work has appeared in numerous publications. OTTO FIELDS, a southeastern Kentucky native, was born and reared in Jackson County. He "went north to Ohio" and stayed thirty-two years but always called Kentucky his home, he says. HOWARD HULL is a Professor of Art Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His work has been published in numerous publications. MIKE IVEY resides in Ivanhoe, Virginia. His short story "Left-Handed Redheads" appeared in the summer, 1984, issue oí Appalachian Heritage. KENNETH KING is a graduate of Berea College and the University of Kentucky. He teaches at Somerset Community College. His poetry has appeared in several regional publications. BARBARA MABRY is editor of Ampersand and Director of Special Programs and Advising in the Dean's Office in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. She was published in Appalachian Heritage in the winter/spring, 1985, issue. SHARYN McCRUMB teaches at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. She is the current president of the Appalachian Writers Association and has had three novels and numerous short stories published in various periodicals. GURNEY NORMAN is a native of Hazard, Kentucky. Author of Divine Right's Trip, Kinfolk, and Ancient Creek, he teaches at the University of Kentucky. SALLIE ODUM has had poetry published in journals and periodicals, including The New Oxford Review. She lives in Berea and works at Berea College. 79 SANDRA OLDENDORF, a part-time instructor at Berea College and a doctoral candidate at the University of Kentucky, taught freshman composition in an adjoining county as part of Berea's Continuing Education program. Otto Fields was in that class. .1. MARSHALL PORTER lives in Cumberland, Maryland. He has had "many hundreds of articles, essays, poems and sketches published over the years." He is the author of five books. MARY ROGERS and her husband have been partners in the work at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in southeastern Kentucky for three or more decades. She is an artist whose work has appeared in numerous books and magazines over the years. MARION SCHOEBERLE1N lives in Elmhurst, Illinois. She has published stories and poems in various literary journals. JUNE TURNER SEBASTIAN was born at Oneida, Kentucky and grew up on Long's Creek in Breathitt County. She now lives in the countryside near Xenia, Ohio, and does free-lance writing. NANCY SIMPSON lives "in the farthest mountains of North Carolina and has two published collections of poetry...