Contributors to this issue

Contributors to this issue: Randy Ball is a photographer and musicianfrom Rogersville, Tennessee Bill Best is a gardener, philosopher and professor ofphysical education at Berea College George Brost is the proprietor ofAppalachian Mountain Books and a teacher of English with UK, EKU, and Kentucky's community college system Deborah Byrne is a poet and teacher about to return to Ohio from Boston, Massachusetts Linda Caldwell is aformer librarian who lives and writes on afarm in Paint Lick, Kentucky, which has been in herfamilyfor many generations G.C. Compton is a writer and magazine editorfrom Pike County, Kentucky Sidney Saylor Fan is a retired librarian and former editor of Appalachian Heritage Truman Fields is from Perry County, Kentucky, and a retired teacher of industrial arts Deirdre H. Gage is a Kentuckian who currently lives and works in Chicago Aaron Gwyn grew up on afarm in Oklahoma and now lives in Denver, Colorado Betty Lee Hailey was raised in West Virginia but now lives in Oregon. She has been writing most ofher 76 years Katherine Helmen is a high school Spanish teacher in Garrard County, Kentucky Carl B. Jarrell grew up in Charleston, West Virginia Jeff Daniel Marion is a teacher of literature and poet-in-residence at CarsonNewman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee Leonard Poage is a poetfrom Portsmouth, Ohio Ralph Price moved to Coloradofrom Allen County, Kentucky, where he was a farmer Virginia Redfield is a retired literature teacher who lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina Steven Salaita is a West Virginian and a graduate student in Native American Studies at the University ofOklahoma Dorothy Hopkins Schnare is a native of New Hampshire and a professor of English at Berea College Sarah Stockton is a studentfrom Morgantown, Indiana, majoring in Spanish at Berea College Rudy Thomas is a retired school superintendent and current director of the Sylvan Learning Center, in Somerset, Kentucky Laura Weddle is a retired teacher and an antique dealer in Somerset, Kentucky David Zaiss is a graduate ofthe University ofBritish Columbia who now lives in Interlochen, Michigan, where he is building his house 84 ...