Contributors to This Issue
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Stephanie Thomas Berry is an artist and writer living with her family at the foot of Mount Mitchell in Western North Carolina. She hunts for poems along the river bank and forest paths around her home. While not roaming these quiet places, she works in the studio her husband built for her and homeschools her two children.
Wendell Berry is a recipient of The National Humanities Medal and gave the 2012 Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities. This year he was elected a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of six story collections, eight novels, twenty-six poetry collections, and thirty non-fiction books. Nine books have been written about him. He farms with horses on a Kentucky River farm in Henry County, Kentucky, near where he was born and raised.
Casey Clabough is the author of the novel Confederado, the travel memoir The Warrior’s Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route, and five scholarly books on southern and Appalachian writers, including Inhabiting Contemporary Southern & Appalachian Literature: Region & Place in the 21st Century. He is the recipient of the 2013 Bangladesh International Literary Award, a Brazilian Artists Grant, and several U.S.-based fellowships.
Samantha Lynn Cole is a native of Beattyville, Kentucky, who worked for Appalachian Heritage and created her own independent major in Appalachian Studies while a student at Berea College. Since graduating, she has continued writing while working for the college as an administrative assistant for an academic division.
Terry Douglas has lived off and on in Giles County, Virginia, since 1980, but is returning to high school teaching in Georgia this fall. He served the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan and has done farm work as well as teaching. This story won the Wytheville Chautauqua Creative Writing Contest earlier this year. He is presently working on a children’s novel and looks forward to publishing it soon. [End Page 116]
Sue Weaver Dunlap is a retired English teacher who raises Black Angus cattle and lives in Walland, Tennessee. She has a poetry chapbook under consideration and is working on a novel.
Jesse Graves grew up in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, a community his ancestors settled in the 1780s. He teaches at East Tennessee State University and is coeditor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee, due out in early fall 2013. His chapbook, Basin Ghosts, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press, and the poem in this issue will be included in that book. He is the author of Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine (2012), which won that year’s Weatherford Award for poetry.
Jane Hicks is retired as a teacher of gifted students and a guidance counselor. An avid quilter and NASCAR fan, she lives in Blountville, Tennessee, and is the author of Blood & Bone Remember: Poems from Appalachia (2005), a poetry collection. Her second book, Driving with the Dead, will be published in 2014 by the University Press of Kentucky.
David Huddle is retired from a distinguished career as a Professor at the University of Vermont, and from post-retirement assignments at Hollins and Austin Peay Universities. He has published poems, short stories, novellas, novels, and essays and is working on what he hopes will be his twentieth book.
David Thurman Miller is an editor and writer living in Lexington, Kentucky. His first volume of poetry The End of the World and Other Poems was published last year. He assisted his father, Thurman Miller, a Marine Corps veteran of World War II who worked as a West Virginia coal miner for thirty-nine years, in writing his memoir Earned in Blood: My Journey from Old Blood Marine to the Most Dangerous Job in America recently published by St. Martin’s Press.
William Miller is a poet, children’s author, and mystery novelist who was raised in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama. His academic career included teaching writing for children at Hollins University, where he still teaches every other summer. He is now retired and lives and writes in the French Quarter of New Orleans. [End Page 117]
Ghita Orth is retired from the English Department of the University of Vermont where she taught...
