Contributors to this Issue
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Glenda Bailey-Mershon grew up in Greenville County, South Carolina, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her family roots on both sides lie in the Western North Carolina Mountains. She is the author of sa-co-ni-ge: blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians as well as The History of the American Woman’s Movement: A Study Guide. She is a retired academic administrator, now living in St. Augustine, Florida.
Chad Berry is Director of the Berea College Appalachian Center and Goode Professor of Appalachian Studies. He served as the 2006-2007 president of the Appalachian Studies Association. He is the author of Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles (2000) and the editor of The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (2008).
Ancella R. Bickley is a retired professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College. The author of Memphis Tennessee Garrison, published by the Ohio University Press, she currently lives in Florida.
Gloria Burgess grew up in Northern Mississippi and works as an organizational consultant and inspirational speaker. She is the author of Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside, forthcoming from Jossey-Bass/Wiley, and currently lives in Edmonds, Washington.
Warren J. Carson chairs the English Department at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg and serves as the Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He lives in his hometown, Tryon, North Carolina, in the shadow of Hogback Mountain. His work has appeared in African-American Review, Southern Literary Journal, and other venues.
Doris Davenport grew up in Cornelia, Georgia, in the Appalachian foothills. She has taught and performed nationwide and currently is [End Page 120] an Associate Professor of English at Albany State University in her home state. She has published book reviews, articles, essays, and six books of poetry, including madness like morning glories (LSU Press, 2005) and a hunger for moonlight (self-published, 2006).
Elizabeth Engelhardt grew up in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Engelhardt is the author of The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature and the editor of Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies.
Carl Fleischauer has worked at the Library of Congress for thirty years, first with the American Folklife Center, then launching the American Memory program, and today contributing to digital preservation efforts. He is the co-author of Documenting America, 1935-43, and several CDs and videos. Before working at the Library, he worked for West Virginia University.
Virginia C. Fowler is the Director of the Literature, Language and Culture Department at Virginia Tech. Her specialty is African-American Literature, particularly that by women writers, and she is widely credited with not only helping to launch Tech’s Women’s Studies Program but also recruiting Nikki Giovanni to teach there. She is working on her third biographical book on Giovanni.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. grew up in Piedmont, West Virginia, and one of his several books is a best-selling memoir about that experience, Colored People. He currently serves Harvard University as Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research.
Crystal Good is the mother of three sons. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia, near her hometown of St. Albans. She is a proud member of the Affrilachian Poets and “works for justice for all” as the Assistant Director of the West Virginia non-profit, Covenant House. [End Page 121]
Alena Hairston spent some of her formative years in Logan, West Virginia. Her poetry book, The Logan Topographies, was published by Persea Books in New York. It won the inaugural Lexi Rudnitsky Memorial Prize, and an earlier version of the manuscript won the top fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She now lives in Oakland, California, and is an English professor at Solano College.
Wilburn Hayden grew up in Winston-Salem in Appalachian Forsyth County, North Carolina, and has taught social work at three Appalachian universities...
