About the Contributors
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Peter S. Carmichael is the Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of History and the Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. He is the author and editor of four books, including The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion, and is currently finishing a cultural history of the common Civil War soldier and a study of Confederate slaves titled The War for the Common Soldier, forthcoming from UNC Press.
Godfrey Cheshire is a film critic, journalist, and the writer-director of Moving Midway, a documentary about his family’s North Carolina plantation.
David P. Cline is the Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961–1973 and is currently working on several projects concerned with the intersection between Christian faith and social activism.
Josh Eure won the Dell Award and the Brenda L. Smart Prize and was finalist for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. He also was nominated for a Best of the Net Award, and his work has appeared in the Raleigh Review and Dell magazine online. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from North Carolina State University.
Danny Fulks is Professor Emeritus at Marshall University. He has written two collections of nonfiction essays for the Jesse Stuart Foundation (Ashland, Kentucky), Tragedy On Greasy Ridge and Tick Ridge Faces the South, and has published in the MacGuffin, Timeline, Backwoods Home, Hearthstone, Goldenseal, Bluegrass Unlimited, the Elementary School Journal, the Educational Forum, Now and Then, and the Appalachian Journal. He lives in Huntington, West Virginia.
Sally Greene is an independent scholar whose interests include the law, literature, and history of the American South. Her essays have appeared in the Southern Quarterly, the Mississippi Quarterly, the Journal of Modern Literature, and the North Carolina Law Review. She is Associate Director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South.
Keith Maillard was born and raised in West Virginia. Currently the Chair of the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia, he is the author of thirteen novels and one poetry collection. “Hot Springs” is based upon a chapter from his forthcoming memoir, Fatherless.
Robert Morgan is a poet, novelist, and biographer. His most recent book is Boone: A Biography (2007), winner of the Kentucky Literary Award and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is now Kappa Alpha Professor of English.
Jessica Wilkerson is a doctoral candidate in Women’s and Gender History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research explores women’s activism in the Mountain South in the 1970s. She is currently working with the Southern Oral History Program on the women’s movement phase of their ongoing Long Civil Rights Movement research. [End Page 119]
