Contributors
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Joseph Bathanti is former Poet Laureate of North Carolina and the award-winning author of eight books of poetry, the novels East Liberty and Coventry, a book of stories titled The High Heart, and two books of nonfiction titled They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists, 1971–1995 and Half of What I Say is Meaningless. A new novel, The Life of the World to Come, is forthcoming.
Amy Clark’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, NPR, Still, Appalachian Heritage, Blue Ridge Country, Appalachian Journal, and many others. Her co-edited book, Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community, was used as a dialect resource for actors during the filming of Big Stone Gap, a movie adaptation of Adriana Trigiani’s novel of the same title.
Jordan Farmer is originally from Logan, West Virginia, and is currently a Ph.D. student studying creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches 20th Century Fiction and Creative Writing. His fiction has been a finalist of both the Sycamore Review Wabash Fiction Prize and Cutbank’s Montana Prize in Fiction. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in The Southwest Review, Southern Humanities Review, Kestrel, and Rip Rap Journal.
Elizabeth Glass holds Masters degrees in Creative Writing and Counseling Psychology. She received an Emerging Artist Award in Literary Arts from the Kentucky Arts Council, and a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her writing has appeared in Still: The Journal, River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things” series, New Plains Review, Writer’s Digest, The Chattahoochee Review, and other journals. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Angel Sands Gunn lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband and two daughters. Her work can be found on Full Grown People, Literary Mama, The Voices Project, and Edible Blue Ridge Magazine. She is working on a novel about a West Virginia family during the Great Depression. [End Page 126]
Marc Harshman is the author of the poetry collection, Green-Silver and Silent and All That Feeds Us: The West Virginia Poems. His periodical publications include The Georgia Review, The Progressive, Roanoke Review, Bayou, and Shenandoah. His eleven children’s books include The Storm, and three new children’s titles are forthcoming. Marc is the poet laureate of West Virginia and lives in Wheeling.
Thomas Alan Holmes, a member of the East Tennessee State University English faculty, lives and writes in Johnson City. Some of his work has appeared in Louisiana Literature, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Connecticut Review, and The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume VI: Tennessee, with poems forthcoming in North American Review and Still: The Journal.
Barbara Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, received the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work, and in 2010 won Britain’s Orange Prize for The Lacuna. Her novel The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Sandra Kolankiewicz’s poems and stories have appeared most recently in New World Writing, Gargoyle, Fifth Wednesday, Prick of the Spindle, Per Contra, and Pif. Years ago, story of mine appeared in Appalachian Heritage. Her chapbook Turning Inside Out won the Black River Prize at Black Lawrence Press, and her chapbook The Way You Will Go is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
Erica Langston grew up in Homestead, Florida, a sinking town cradled between the Everglades and a nuclear power plant. Her childhood was loud, and greatly defined by siblings, storms, swamps and shallow graves. She is a graduate of the University of Florida, a 2011–2013 Fulbright Scholar, and an MSc candidate in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana.
Rosemary Rhodes Royston, author of Splitting the Soil (Finishing Line Press, 2014), resides in northeast Georgia. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Southern Poetry Review, NANO Fiction, The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, Coal Hill Review, Flycatcher, Still: The Journal, Town Creek Review, and Alehouse. [End Page 127]
Lauren Stonestreet is a photographer and creative director originally from West Virginia and currently based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She...
