Contributors

Contributors Joanne Brannon Aldridge is a writer and editor who lives in Boone, North Carolina, and is a native of Watauga. Freída Allen says, "I was bom and reared in Western North Carolina and have lived my entire life here." William A. Bake, Boone, North Carolina, is a former writer and photographer for me National Park Service. In addition to four books, his work has been featured in many national publications. Garry Barker, Berea, Kentucky, is consultant and free-lance writer of both technical and creative materials. J. Winston Cooper is at Centre College in DanviUe, Kentucky. A published writer, he recentiy spent a summer in the Allegheny mountains. Victor M. Depta says, "I was bom on Buffalo Creek, in Logan County, West Virginia . In 1972 when the slurry dam broke and drowned 125 people, my uncle and five of his children were victims." William D. Epling retired after many years of medical practice in Berea. This is his first published story. Jerry R. Fee wrote, "I witnessed many interesting events in my native Harlan County, Kentucky." He currentiy is superintendant of the Avery County Board of Education in Newland, North Carolina. Carole Ganim is on the Core Faculty at the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities in Cincinnati, Ohio. She says, "I have always loved the surprises of die tulip tree." Amy Garza lives in Griffith, Indiana, but was reared in Western North Carolina. In addition to her creative writing, she does editing and layout for Transport Fleet News. Beth George, Hemdon, Virginia, is teaching in die Fairfax County School System. A new poet, her work has appeared in quarterlies and literary magazines. Géraldine Marshall Gutfreund, Cincinnati , Ohio, has been published in magazines and chapbooks. Tony Hays has moved from Tennessee to Commerce, Texas. He does creative writing and nonfiction. Steve Inskeep is a student at Morehead University on an exchange program with Hunter CoUege in New York dus year. He has been published several times. Loyal Jones, Berea, Kentucky, is author of numerous scholarly articles and books, and co-author of a book on Appalachian humor Adrian Kash writes, "My roots go deep into the mountains and come from mountain stock. My grandmother was a Hatfield and was a litde girl when die Hatfield and McCoy feud began. Shirley Long, Brodhead, Kentucky, teaches at Transylvania University in Lexington. Kyle McQueen, Berea College senior and native of Jackson County, Kentucky, is a cartoonist of note in the area. Jeff Daniel Marion is a respected poet who is on the faculty at Carson Newman College in Tennessee. Jim Wayne Miller, poet and essayist, lecturer , and workshop leader, teaches at Western Kentucky University. Michael Mooney, North Carolina State 79 University Student, was reared in Princeton, West Virginia. Darrell Musick, Jonesville, Virginia, has played in professional music groups, performed in outdoor drama, and writes plays and newspaper features. Kenneth W. Noe was bom and reared in Elliston, Montgomery County, Virginia. He is an archivist widi the Illinois Historical Survey at University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign . Mary E. O'Dell, Middletown, Kentucky, is a freelance poet. The Reverend Charles Rampp was bom and reared in southern Ohio. He says, "I'm looking forward to retirement and full-time writing." Bonnie Roberts was "bom and reared in the South." She is a poet and artist-in-residence in the Arts in Education program, Alabama State Council of the Arts and Humanities. She was invited to read original poems at the 1986 Spoleto Festival. Larry Marshall Sams is a faculty member at Mississippi VaUey State University. His work has appeared in national periodicals. Daniel M. Schores, Professor at Austin CoUege, has had articles on folklore published in Tennessee Folklife Journal and Atheneum Review. Allison Thorpe says, "When I moved to Kentucky, I made my living selling abandoned farms and country homesteads. I knew all the snakes on a first-name basis." She has a wry sense of humor and writes good poetry. Regina VHIiers says, "I quit teaching and newspaper work to devote full time to freelance writing." Her work has been in Sunday magazines, literary journals, and national women's magazines. God's Lenten Plowing father of angels too, have they done...