Contributors to This Issue
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Warren J. Carson is a frequent reviewer for Appalachian Heritage and a contributor to the African American Review. He is Professor of English and a senior academic administrator at the University of South Carolina-Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was raised in Avery County and Tryon, North Carolina, and still lives in Tryon.
Elizabeth Cox could see the Tennessee River from her bedroom window as she was growing up on the campus of the Baylor School in Chattanooga where her father was headmaster. She is the author of four novels and a story collection. Her first poetry book, I Have Told You and Told You, will be published by Mercer University Press later this year. She is currently a professor at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Wilma Dykeman (1920–2006) was the author of three novels and more than twenty non-fiction works. She served as Tennessee State Historian from 1981 until 2002 and was on the Board of Trustees of Berea College. She was in high demand as a public speaker and teacher.
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt is a native of western North Carolina, where her family has lived since the eighteenth century. She currently serves as Professor of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature. Her last two books have been about barbecue and greens.
David Huddle is working on his twentieth book, having published poetry, story collections, novellas, novels and essays both in book form and for periodicals including Harper’s, The New Yorker and Esquire. He was raised in Ivanhoe, Virginia, taught at the University of Vermont for 38 years, and is now doing post-retirement teaching as the Roy Acuff Chair in Creative Excellence at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Lisa Kwong calls herself an AppalAsian, an Asian from Appalachia. She grew up in Radford, Virginia, and is now pursuing an MFA at Indiana University. Her “ABC (Appalachian-born Chinese) Sequence” has been published in Pluck! [End Page 101]
Jeffrey Hicks Morgan teaches high school English at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. This is his first published poem, inspired by a trip to the 2012 Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in Burnsville, North Carolina, his wife’s hometown.
Carrie Mullins still lives in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, where she was raised.
James Overholt is the great-grandson of George Cole, the high sheriff of Madison County, North Carolina, in the early twentieth century. George’s brother, Will, was Wilma Dykeman’s grandfather. Now retired and living in Dandridge, Tennessee, Overholt taught high school history and worked for the Regional Appalachian Center.
Viki Dasher Rouse is the guest editor of this issue as well as the Spring 2008 issue which featured Mildred Haun. Rouse directs the Mildred Haun Conference, now in its fourth year, an annual event at Walters State College in Morristown, Tennessee, where she is an Associate Professor of English. Wilma Dykeman was the subject of her doctoral dissertation.
Elizabeth Sims is director of marketing for Tupelo Honey Café in Asheville, North Carolina. She has written for Garden and Gun and Southern Living and is the author of the Tupelo Honey Café Cookbook.
Katherine Smith was raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, and teaches English at Montgomery College in Maryland. Her poetry collection Argument by Design was published in 2003.
Dykeman Cole Stokely co-authored The Appalachian Mountains with his mother, Wilma Dykeman. He lives in his hometown, Newport, Tennessee, and in New York City and manages Wakestone Books, a small press.
James R. Stokely Jr. (1913–1977) grew up in Newport, Tennessee, the grandson of Anna Rorex Stokely, who with her sons founded the Stokely Brothers Canning Company, Newport’s biggest employer. He chose to become a poet rather than to go into the family business. As the husband of Wilma Dykeman, he co-authored several of her books, including Neither Black Nor White, which won the Sidney Hillman Award for the best book on race relations of 1957. [End Page 102]
Jim Stokely, whose full name is James Rorex Stokely...
