Contributors to this Issue
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Dwight B. Billings is a past president of the Appalachian Studies Association and past editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. He is the co-editor of Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes and Appalachia in the Making, and the co-author of The Road to Poverty. Raised in West Virginia, Billings is currently is a Professor of Sociology and co-director of Appalachian Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Kate Black is on the faculty of Appalachian Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the longtime curator of the Appalachian Collection at the University Libraries there and is the caretaker of the James S. Brown papers.
Adrian Blevins was raised in Abingdon, Virginia. She currently teaches creative writing at Colby College in Maine and is the author of three books of poetry, including Live from the Homesick Jamboree.
Julie Dunlop was raised in Virginia and now teaches English at a New Mexico community college.This poem is part of a series of poems she has written about the impact of mountaintop removal mining, which she observed when visiting the town of Appalachia, Virginia, where her mother’s family lived.
Cathryn Hankla was born in Richlands, in the Virginia coalfields. Professor of English and director of the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University, she serves as poetry editor of The Hollins Critic. She is the author of four fiction titles, including a new story collection, Fortune Teller Miracle Fish, and seven poetry collections, the latest being Last Exposures: A Sequence.
David C. Hightower was raised on farms in Bartow County, Georgia, and began writing poetry when he was in the army and continued throughout his career as an English and journalism teacher. He lives in Summerville, Georgia, and is the author of The Hanging Man Dreams, a poetry collection.
Laurence Holden moved to a place on Warwoman Creek in Rabun County, Georgia, in 2000 after serving as an Artist in Residence at the Hambidge Center during many summers. He is the author of Take Me to the River: Poems & Paintings for Coming Home. [End Page 109]
Jason Howard is the co-author, with Silas House, of Something’s Rising and the editor of We All Live Downstream. His writing has been published in The Nation, Equal Justice Magazine, Paste, No Depression, and the Louisville Review. A James Still Fellow at the University of Kentucky, he currently lives in Berea.
David Huddle hails from Ivanhoe, Virginia, and, after a distinguished academic career at the University of Vermont, now teaches at Hollins University. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and next year will publish a poetry collection, Black Snake at the Family Reunion, and a novel, Nothing Can Make Me Do This.
Helen Matthews Lewis is the person for whom the Appalachian Studies Association chose to name their community service award. She is now working on a book about early Civil Rights activity by the ywca on Southern campuses. She lives in Morganton, Georgia, and is the author and co-author of several seminal books and pamphlets about the region.
Denton Loving lives on a farm in Speedwell, Tennessee, where he writes poetry and fiction. He works for his alma mater, Lincoln Memorial University, where he codirects the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival.
Maurice Manning, a Yale Younger Poet, lives on his farm near Perryville, Kentucky, and in Bloomington, Indiana, where he teaches at Indiana University. His fourth poetry book is The Common Man from Houghton-Mifflin.
Karen Salyer McElmurray grew up in a family with roots in Eastern Kentucky that date back to the 1700s. She now teaches in the mfa program at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. She is the author of a memoir, Surrendered Child, and two novels, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven and Motel of the Stars.
Guy Mendes is a photographer, writer, and producer. He worked for Kentucky Educational Television for 35 years and has published three books of photography including 40/40—Forty Years Forty Portraits.
Jesse Ambrose Montgomery grew up in Berea, Kentucky, and graduated from Oberlin College. He is now a writing tutor in a public high school in northeast...
