Contributors
- Contributors
Joseph Bathanti is former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award for Literature. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, released in 2016. Bathanti is Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and the University's Watauga Residential College Writer-in-Residence.
Philip Belcher is the Vice President of Programs for The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina in Asheville and the author of a chapbook, The Flies and Their Lovely Names. Belcher's poems and prose have appeared in numerous journals, including The Southeast Review, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Passages North, Fugue, The Southern Quarterly, and Asheville Poetry Review. He is an Advisory and Contributing Editor for Shenandoah.
Stephen Brown is the author of Shadows of Chaco Canyon, an historical mystery novel. A National Park Service Albright-Wirth grant to research the Underground Railroad led to his second book: A Promise Moon. He is scheduled to graduate from Spalding University's MFA Program in November 2017 and his preliminary master's thesis has been accepted as an online resource by the University of New Mexico.
Charles Cantrell taught English for several years at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. He has held numerous residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Art and Ragdale. The author of two chapbooks, Cicatrix and Greatest Hits, he has published poems in Poetry Northwest, The Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and other publications.
Samantha Cole is a current resident of Berea, Kentucky, who grew up in Beattyville, Kentucky. She enjoys reading, and occasionally writes poetry or fiction about modern mountain life. She has been published in Appalachian Heritage, Kudzu, and Still: The Journal. [End Page 122]
Katherine Scott Crawford is an award-winning writer, newspaper columnist, and college English teacher. Author of the historical novel Keowee Valley, her work has appeared in literary journals and magazines, including South Loop Review, The Santa Fe Writer's Project, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Crawford holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Western North Carolina with her husband and daughters.
Lori Gravley writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She earned her MFA from the University of Texas at El Paso. She has published poems in a variety of journals, recently including I-70 Review, Burningword, and Crack the Spine. She travels the world for her work as a USAID consultant, but her home is in Yellow Springs, Ohio. You can hear her on Conrad's Corner and listen to her interviews with other poets at WYSO Public Radio.
Michael Gray received his MFA from Florida Atlantic University and currently serves as an Associate Professor of English at John Tyler Community College in Virginia. His fiction has appeared in The Baltimore Review, Carte Blanche, Fiction Southeast, and Coe Review.
Janet S. Holloway was born and raised in Logan County, West Virginia, and spent many summers on her grandmother's tobacco farm outside of Abingdon, Virginia. She's the author of A Willful Child, and her second memoir, Leaving, will be published in June. A graduate of Marshall University, Holloway lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Scott Honeycutt grew up in Virginia and Tennessee. For many years, he taught high school English south of Atlanta before earning a Ph.D. in American literature from Georgia State University. He is an Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. When not teaching, Honeycutt enjoys walking the hills of Appalachia and spending time with his family.
Julia Campbell Johnson received an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. Her poems have appeared in Potomac Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poet Lore, among others. Her chapbook, The Tea of the Unforeseen Berry, was published by Finishing Line Press. She is a Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. [End Page 123]
John Lang is the author of Understanding Fred Chappell, Six Poets from the Mountain South, and most recently, Understanding Ron Rash. A Professor of English Emeritus at Emory & Henry College, where he taught from 1983 to 2012, Lang also edited The Iron Mountain...
