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- Appalachian Heritage
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 34, Number 3, Summer 2006
- pp. 124-127
- 10.1353/aph.2006.0069
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Contributors to this issue: Wendell Berry and his wife, Tanya, farm with horses on the Kentucky River near where he was born and raised in FIenry County. He is the author of more than forty books, including poetry, fiction and essays. Cynthia Burack, a first generation college student descended from two coal-mining families, teaches at Ohio State but lives in Washington, D. C. She is the author of three books on feminist psychology. Dexter Collett was raised in a coal camp in Harlan County and now lives in a non-electric cabin in nearby Leslie County. He is the author of Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Pertaining to Southern Appalachian Literature: 1912-1991 (1994). R.H.W. Dillard is a Roanoke, Virginia, native still living there and teaching creative writing and film at Hollins University. I Ie is the author of six volumes of poems, two novels, a story collection, and two critical works. He is also co-author of the screenplay of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster just re-released on DVD. Thomas E. Douglass teaches Contemporary Literature at East Carolina University and is the editor of the University of Tennessee Press's Appalachian Echoes Series of fiction reprints. He has written a book on Brecce D'J Pancake and is working on a book on Davis Grubb. Sidney Saylor Fair grew up in Bell County, Kentucky, and served as editor of Appalachian Heritage from 1985-1999. She is the author of seven books, including More than Moonshine (1995). Edward Francisco is Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Pellissippi State Technical Community College near Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the author of a novel, The Dealmaker (2002), and a volume of poetry, Death, Love and Child (2000). Michael Shannon Friedman is from Charleston, West Virginia, and often writes for The Charleston Gazette. He now teaches English at Cardinal Gibbons, a Franciscan school in Raleigh, NC. Perdition Records has released two collections of his original songs. 124 Kenneth D. Haynes lives in Harlan County, Kentucky, and followed generations of Eastern Kentucky coal miners in his family by working in the mines before becoming a land surveyor. The poem in this issue is his first published work. Jane Hicks lives, writes, quilts, and teaches gifted elementary students in the mountains of Upper East Tennessee. She is the author of a book of poetry, Blood and Bone Remember (2005). Libby Falk Jones is professor of English and founding director of the Center for Learning, Teaching, Communication, and Research at Berea College. The author of Feminism, Utopia and Narrative (1990), she is currently at work on a book of profiles of significant women educators as well as two books of poetry. Parks Lanier teaches at Radford University in Virginia. Each summer he leads the SeIu Writers' Retreat and conducts television interviews with visiting writers for the Highland Summer Conference. Ashley Lawrence, a student worker for Appalachian Heritage, is a Junior Art Education major at Berea College from Clinton, Tennesse. Jeff Mann has published three poetry chapbooks, one full-length book of poetry, a collection of essays, and a novella. Raised in Hinton, WV, he teaches creative writing and Appalachian studies at Virginia Tech. Robert Morgan's third novel, Gap Creek (2001), became an Oprah Winfrey selection and catapulted him into national prominence. A native of western North Carolina, he teaches at Cornell University and is the author of thirteen poetry collections, five novels, three story collections and one book of essays. He is working on a biography of Daniel Boone. Kevin Oderman lives in Morgantown, WV, where he is Professor of English at WVU. He is the author of books of literary criticism and a novel. Ann Pancake was raised in Summersville and Romney, West Virginia, but now teaches at the MFA Program of Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Seattle. The winner of a Pushcart Prize, she is the author of a collection of short stories set in West Virginia, Given Ground (2001), and has just finished a novel about mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia entitled Strange As This Weather Has Been. 125 Edwina Pendarvis hails from eastern Kentucky and teaches at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia...