Contributors to This Issue

Contributors to This Issue Leah Bayens lives on a farm outside Junction City, Kentucky. She has recently received an MA from Eastern Kentucky University and is enrolling in a PhD program to study American Literature and ecocriticism at the University of Kentucky this fall. Wendell Berry received a Stegner Fellowship to study creative writing at Stanford in 1958. He is the author of dozens of books, including poetry collections, novels, story collections, and essays. He farms organically with horses on a Kentucky River farm in his native Henry County, Kentucky. Jenny Galloway Browning is the author of two poetry collections, Blackberry Tea and A Cave and A Cracker. Two of her plays have been producedby the GodbyAppalachian Center. She serves as the Project Director at the Kentucky Appalachian Artisan Center and lives in Partridge, Kentucky. doris davenport grew up in Cornelia, Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachians. She has published numerous essays, articles, and five books of poetry. She is the author most recently of madness like morning glories: poems, doris has worked as a university professor, a full-time lecturer and performance poet. She can be reached at expertise@earthlink.net. Thomas E. Douglass is the editor of the Appalachian Echoes series for the University of Tennessee Press and the author of A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake. For ten years he studied and taught in West Virginia where his grandmother's people lived, but he is now an English professor at East Carolina University. Sidney Saylor Farr grew up on Stony Fork of Straight Creek in Bell County, Kentucky, and is now retired from serving Berea College. She was editor of Appalachian Heritage from the mid-eighties through the 1990s and is the author of seven books. Chris Green found Gurney Norman as a mentor in 1989 and now teaches Appalachian Literature at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, Door to Door, and has been published in the Journal of Appalachian Studies and Radical Teacher. From 1999 until 2003 he edited Wind, a literary magazine. James Baker Hall received a Stegner Fellowship to study creative writing at Stanford in 1960. He taught creative writing at the University of Kentucky from 1973 until 2004 and served as the Kentucky Poet Laureate from 2001-2003. He has been published in multiple genres, including photography, essay, novel, stories and poetry. He lives on a farm near Sadieville, Kentucky. Tim Homan works for Parking Services at the University of Georgia and lives on Brushy Creek near Colbert, Georgia. An ardent hiker in the Southern Appalachians for the last thirty years, he has written five important hiking guides and compiled A Yearning Towards Wildness: Environmental Writings by Henry David Thoreau (1991). This is his first publication in a literary magazine. 106 Beth Kennedy is a junior English education major at Marshall University from Elkins, West Virginia. This is her first published work. Ed McClanahan was raised in Brooksville and Maysville, Kentucky, and received a Stegner Fellowship to study creative writing at Stanford in 1962. He is the author of three story collections, a novel, and two non-fiction books and recently edited Ken Kesey's Jail Journals. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Gurney Norman received a Stegner Fellowship to study creative writing at Stanford in 1960. He is the author ofDivineRight's Trip, a novel, and Kinfolks, a collectionofstories. He grew up inEasternKentucky and SouthwesternVirginia and hasbeenteachingat the University of Kentucky since 1979. Edwina Pendarvis is an eastern Kentucky native who currently lives in Huntington, West Virginia, and teaches in the Education Department at Marshall University. She is the author of two poetry collections, Joy Ride and Like the Mountains ofChina. Joe Rice teaches for the Honors Program and the English Department at East Tennessee State University. He is into adventure racing and has been published in American Drama and Cache Review. Scott Loring Sanders grew up in New Jersey and spent "many agonizing years in corporate America," before falling in love with Appalachia. He won an honorable mention award in fiction for the Atlantic Monthly Student Writer's Competition in 2004 and just completed his MFA...