About the Contributors

Tom Andrews was a native of West Virginia and winner of both the National Poetry Series and the Iowa Poetry Prize. His untimely death in 2001 cut short a career marked by early achievement and remarkable innovation. Random Symmetries, his collected works, was published by Oberlin College Press in 2002.

Lee Ann Brown is assistant professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. A poet and filmmaker whose first book, Polyverse (1999), won the New American Poetry Series Award, she is also the founder and editor of the small press Tender Buttons.

Angelo P. Coclanis is in the Sixth Form at the Choate Rosemary Hall School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He is an avid traveler with a keen interest in photography. In the fall he will attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Professor of History and Associate Provost for International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of many works in the fields of American and international economic history. He is also Angelo's father.

Drew Gilpin Faust is Lincoln Professor of History and Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.She is a past president of the Southern Historical Association and author of five books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1996 and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.

Tom Hanchett is staff historian at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina. He curated the award-winning permanent exhibition "Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont," where visitors can sit at a recreated Civil Rights lunch counter. Join him at the October 2005 Southern Foodways Alliance gathering for a "New South Soda-Pop Tasting."

Brian Jolley has traveled to every state except Hawaii, using his camera to learn about each particular place. His Keepers of the Southern Byways was published by Big Crooked Teefh (sic) Publications in 2004.

Rebecca C. McIntyre is assistant professor of American history at Middle Tennessee State University and currently is revising her dissertation, "Promoting the South: Tourism and Southern Identity," for publication. She lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with her husband and two daughters.