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Kathryn Stripling Byer has published six full-length collections of poetry, all but one with LSU University Press. Descent, her most recent, recently received both the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance award and the North Carolina Book Award for poetry. A chapter was devoted to her work in John Lang’s Six Poets from the Mountain South, and her first collection, The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest (originally published in the AWP Award Series), was reprinted by Press 53 in 2013. She lives beside the Tuckasegee River in the North Carolina mountains.
Blanche Farley, a recently retired librarian, has taught at Young Harris College and other institutions near her home in Atlanta. Her poetry and stories have appeared in various literary journals, including Bloodroot, Confrontation, Indiana Review, and Southern Poetry Review, as well as in anthologies and texts books including The Bedford Introduction to Literature and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume Five. She is coeditor of the food poem anthology Like a Summer Peach: Sunbright Poems and Old Southern Recipes, and holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Rebecca Godwin was first published in Appalachian Heritage in 1992 with a review of Lee Smith’s novel The Devil’s Dream. She has authored a book on Smith and numerous scholarly essays and book reviews, many of them on fiction or poetry by writers of the Appalachian South. Godwin serves currently on the Thomas Wolfe Society Board of Directors as well as the North Carolina Literature Review editorial board. She grew up on a family farm in eastern North Carolina and is Professor of English at Barton College.
Jesse Graves is the author of two poetry collections, including the recently released Basin Ghosts, and Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, which won the Weatherford Award, the Appalachian Writers’ Association Book of the Year in Poetry, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award. He is a native of Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, and teaches at East Tennessee State University. [End Page 124]
Jeanne Marie Hibberd serves as development and communications director for Hindman Settlement School, where she is actively involved in planning and coordinating the annual Appalachian Writers Workshop. An accomplished photographer, Hibberd holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Berea College and has spent the last two decades working with communities, nonprofits, civic groups and businesses, primarily in Kentucky and Appalachia. Her experience includes public policy research, program management, fundraising, public relations, marketing, and program evaluation.
Ron Houchin is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection The Man Who Saws Us in Half (LSU Press, 2013), as well as five previous collections: Museum Crows, Birds in the Tops of Winter Trees, Among Wordless Things, Moveable Darkness, and Death and the River. A retired public high school teacher, he lives on the banks of the Ohio River across from Huntington, West Virginia, where he grew up.
Fenton Johnson is the author of two novels, Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock, as well as Geography of the Heart: A Memoir and Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey among Christian and Buddhist Monks. Johnson has contributed cover essays and stories to Harper’s Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and many literary quarterlies. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and creative nonfiction, two Lambda Literary Awards, a Kentucky Literary Award in creative nonfiction, and the American Library Association Award for best gay/lesbian nonfiction. He has written narrations and scripts for award-winning independent documentaries and conducts workshops across the country, and serves on the faculty of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona. For more information visit www.fentonjohnson.com.
Maurice Manning’s most recent books are The Gone and the Going Away, his fifth collection of poems, and The Rag-Picker’s Guide to Poetry, co-edited with Eleanor Wilner. A former Guggenheim fellow, Manning has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is a member of The Fellowship of Southern Writers. He teaches at Transylvania University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. [End Page 125]
Roger May is an Appalachian American photographer currently living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was...
