Contributors To This Issue
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Lisa Alther was the featured author of our Winter 2004 issue. Her first novel, Kinflicks (1976) set in her hometown, Kingsport, Tennessee, was a best-seller as was her latest non-fiction book, Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance (2012).
James Archambeault was the featured photographer of our Spring 2006 issue. His calendars and coffee-table books have made him one of Kentucky’s leading photographers.
Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908–1986) was one of the most prominent American authors to contribute to Appalachian Heritage during its early days. She was the featured author of our Spring 2012 issue. All five of her novels and all three of her non-fiction works, as well as a collection of her stories, are still in print. She grew up in Wayne and Pulaski Counties in Kentucky.
Pam Ashford was living in Asheboro, North Carolina, in 1976 when she contributed this photograph to the magazine.
Randy Ball was the featured photographer of our Spring 2008 issue. He is a commercial photographer from Rogersville, Tennessee, whose images have appeared since 1979 in over one-hundred magazines and have been featured in half-a-dozen books.
Tim Barnwell was the featured photographer of our Summer 2004 issue. He is a commercial and fine art photographer in Asheville, North Carolilna, whose work has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the pages of Time, and in three of his own books, including The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm (2003) and Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia (2009).
Wendell Berry has contributed ten poems to our magazine over the last half-dozen years. He was presented the National Humanities Medal in 2011 in recognition for his outstanding career as a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. He farms on the Kentucky River near Port Royal, Kentucky. [End Page 182]
Glade Brosi grew up in Berea, Kentucky, and worked for a house builder near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This was his first fiction publication. He now works for Stimilt Growers in Wenatchee, Washington.
Warren Brunner was the featured photographer of our Spring 2005 issue. He is a Berea, Kentucky, photographer who has illustrated many important books, including Loyal Jones’s Appalachian Values (1994).
Fred Chappell was the featured author of our Summer 2003 issue and a contributor since 1975. He taught many of our region’s writers while at unc–Greensboro. He is the author of The Fred Chappell Reader (1987) and dozens of books including poetry, stories, novels, and literary criticism.
Billy C. Clark (1928–2009) contributed twenty-one stories and poems to this magazine beginning in 1973. A native of Catlettsburg, Kentucky, he authored seventeen books and was a professor of writing first at Somerset Community College and later at Longwood College in Virginia.
Samantha Lynn Cole, a native of Beattyville, Kentucky, works as an administrative assistant for her alma mater, Berea College. While a student, her labor assignment was with Appalachian Heritage all four years.
Robert J. Conley was the featured author of our Fall 2009 issue. An enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation now living in Sylva, North Carolina, he has published over eighty books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Charles Counts (1934–2000) was a distinguished folk artist in pottery and other media who, with his wife, Ruby Nell, ran a studio/school in Georgia on Lookout Mountain.
Sidney Saylor Farr (1922–2011) served as editor of Appalachian Heritage from 1985 until 1999. A native of the Stoney Fork coal camp in Bell County, Kentucky, she authored six books, half from university presses.
Nikki Giovanni was the featured author of our Fall 2012 issue. She is the author of seventeen poetry collections, eleven children’s books, and ten books of prose. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, she teaches at Virginia Tech. Oprah Winfrey named her one of “Twenty-five Living Legends.” [End Page 183]
Robert Gipe is a native of Kingsport, Tennessee, who directs the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, located in Cumberland, Kentucky.
Gerri Wolfe Grady, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokees, works as an...
