Contributors
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Kenny Cole studied drawing at Pratt Institute, joined the planning committee of City Without Walls Gallery in 1983, and exhibited extensively around New York City until moving to Maine in 1994, where he organized political art actions with the Union of Maine Visual Artists and served on the board at Waterfall Arts. Cole won a 2012 Monhegan Island Artists Residency, exhibited an interactive solo installation at the University of Maine Museum of Art’s Zillman Gallery in 2014, and will show new interactive work in October 2016 at Perimeter Gallery in Belfast, Maine.
Jeffrey Dell earned his BA at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his MFA at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1998. From 1998–2000 Dell was a Fellow at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, where he worked and taught print and book. In 2000, he accepted a position in printmaking at Texas State University, where he is currently a professor. Dell shows at Art Palace Gallery in Houston, and at Galleri Urbane in Dallas.
Chris Fowler is a folklorist, writer, and photographer. He lives in a log cabin in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Find more at www.hitthewoods.com.
Robert Gipe grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. He is the producer of the Higher Ground community performance project and director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College in Harlan County, Kentucky. He lives in Harlan, Kentucky.
Minrose Gwin started her writing life as a newspaper and wire service reporter, working in cities throughout the Southeast. The Queen of Palmyra, her novel about racist violence in 1960s Mississippi, was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and an IndieBound Notable book. Wishing for Snow, her memoir about the convergence of poetry and psychosis in her mother’s life, was reissued by Harper Perennial in 2011. Two novels, Promise and Sweethearts, are forthcoming from William Morrow/Harper Collins. Wearing another hat, Minrose has written four books of literary criticism and is the coeditor of The Literature of the American South, a Norton anthology. She is Kenan Eminent Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Patrick E. Horn is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South. His work has appeared in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Fifty Years After Faulkner, and the Eudora Welty Review. Prior to graduate school, he served as an Air Force intelligence officer in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Turkey, and East Africa.
Odie Lindsey’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Iowa Review, Columbia, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, Fourteen Hills, Guernica, and elsewhere, and he received a Tennessee Arts Council fellowship in Literature. A combat veteran, his related story collection, We Come To Our Senses, and a novel are forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Lindsey teaches at Vanderbilt University.
Mesha Maren’s short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and other literary journals. She was chosen by Lee Smith as winner of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize and is the recipient of a 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, an Appalachian Writing Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her debut novel, Sugar Run, is forthcoming spring 2017 from Algonquin Books.
Justin Mellette recently received his PhD from Pennsylvania State University. His research [End Page 137] interests focus on twentieth- century American literature, particularly southern literature, critical race theory, comics, and graphic novels. His dissertation traces depictions of white racial anxiety in southern literature from the Civil War until the Civil Rights Era.
John Moran is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Stanford University. His research explores nature interpretation, water management, and identity in North Florida. He also records oral histories for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. His fiction has been published in Little Star and Subtropics.
Tom Parson, a native of rural Virginia, is a letterpress printer and poet based in Denver, Colorado, who uses hand- set metal type...
