Contributors to this Issue
Rent from DeepDyve- Contributors to this Issue
Leah Bachmann works as a copywriter for Eversave, a daily deal website located in Boston. Earlier this year she received an M.S. in English from Radford University in Radford, Virginia. She presented this article at the Symposium on Affrilachia at the University of Kentucky last spring. This is her first published work.
Wayne Caldwell has two novels out from Random House, Cataloochee (2007) and Requiem by Fire (2010). He works as business manager for Ambiance Interiors, a family business, and lives near where he was raised in Candler, North Carolina.
Fred Chappell is one of the region’s most distinguished authors. Two books devoted to his work are in print. St. Martin’s published The Fred Chappell Reader in 1987, and he is the author of about twenty poetry collections and about ten novels as well as critical works and story collections. Chappell is a native of Canton, North Carolina, and is now retired from an illustrious career at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Michael Chitwood, a native of Rocky Mount, Virginia, is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published seven collections of poems and two of prose. His work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Poetry and numerous other publications.
Amy Clark grew up in Jonesville, Virginia, and now lives in Big Stone Gap. She teaches writing at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise and is founding director of the Appalachian Writing Project. Her book, Success in Hill Country, is forthcoming this year, and her book about Appalachian dialects is under consideration for publication.
Angel Dianne Clark is the Prevention Program Director of avol (aids Volunteers, Inc.) in Lexington, Kentucky. Her photography has appeared in publications including pluck!, Kentucky Monthly, and the Lexington Herald-Leader. [End Page 125]
Jesse Graves co-edited The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia and has a poetry collection forthcoming from Texas Review Press. He taught a poetry class last summer at the 34th Annual Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman, Kentucky, and is an English professor at East Tennessee State University. Graves grew up at Sharps Chapel, in Union County, Tennessee, a community his ancestors settled in the 1780s.
Sandra Van Pelt Hogue is a coal miner’s daughter from West Virginia and a retired psychotherapist who now lives in Gainesville, Georgia. She holds an msw from New York University and mfa from The Sewanee School of Letters/The University of the South. The story which appears in this issue is her first published work.
Brian Hyer teaches English at Georgia Southern University and spends time hiking in the mountains of North Georgia and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Maurice Manning was one of the three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his latest collection, The Common Man (2010). He grew up in Danville, Kentucky, in a family with strong Eastern Kentucky ties, and he teaches at Indiana University and Warren Wilson College’s low-residency mfa program.
Susan Virginia Mead lives in Riner, Virginia, and regularly travels Shooting Creek Road to Ferrum College where she teaches sociology and coordinates the Appalachian Cluster program. A native of Lexington, Virginia, Mead recently founded a consulting firm called Diversity Serves.
Jim Minick won the Southern Independent Booksellers Assocation’s Award for the best non-fiction book of 2010 for his memoir, The Blueberry Years and is also the author of two poetry collections and a book of essays. He teaches writing and literature at Radford University in Radford, Virginia.
Staci R. Schoenfeld is an mfa student at Southern Illinois University. Although she was raised in Florida by her adoptive parents, both of her biological parents are from Eastern Kentucky. She serves as poetry editor for “Revolution House Magazine” an online literary magazine. [End Page 126]
Bianca Spriggs is a PhD student at the University of Kentucky and an Affrilachian Poet. Her family roots are in the Appalachian regions of Alabama and Virginia, and she is the author of Kaffir Lily and How Swallowtails Became Dragons.
Gordon Lloyd Swartz III worked for 34 years at Consolidation Coal’s Shoemaker Mine in Marshall County, West...
