Contributors to this Issue
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Samantha Lynn Cole is a native of Beattyville, Kentucky. She graduated from Berea College with an Appalachian Studies degree which she designed herself and now works for her alma mater as an administrative asssistant to an academic department. She is a co-editor of Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry.
Toby D. Gibson is a social worker who lives on the Vardy Valley side of Newman’s Ridge in Hancock County, Tennessee. He is a descendent of the Melungeon people who have lived there for unknown generations. A board member of the Vardy Community Historical Society, he has played music in a band at biker bars and honky tonks for the last ten years. This is his first print publication.
Amy Greene lives in Russellville, Tennessee, in Hamblen County where she was born and raised. Her first novel, Bloodroot, received much popular and critical acclaim including being named a Best Book of the Month by Amazon. Her second novel, Long Man, is due in February.
Katie Hoffman is a songwriter, singer and scholar who lives in Sulphur Springs near Jonesborough, Tennessee. A former college professor, she now runs her own consulting company, Appalworks. She co-chaired the Appalachian section of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2003. Her CD is called Beautiful Day.
Thomas Alan Holmes grew up in Cullman, Alabama, and is currently a professor of literature and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. He has co-edited two scholarly books and is working on co-editing a couple more, including one on East Tennessee poet Jeff Daniel Marion.
Ron Jackson was born in Morehead, Kentucky, while his parents were students at Morehead State University. He returned to Morehead for college, studying under James Still among others. He lives in Danville, Kentucky, where he runs his own marketing, advertising and public relations firm, The Idea Farm. [End Page 101]
Loyal Jones grew up on a mountain farm in Western North Carolina. In 1970 he created and then directed the very first collegiate Appalachian Center at his alma mater, Berea College, a center now named after him. He is the author of several books on the region, including Appalachian Values, Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands, Appalachian Folk Tales, Country Music Humorists and Comedians and four humor books with Billy Edd Wheeler. He is working on a book he may call “My Jocular Heroes,” which would include Cratis Williams, Leonard Roberts and others.
Rebecca A. Keck was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and grew up in Bean Station, Tennessee, located between Hamblen County and Hancock County where she took the pictures in this magazine. She is the proprietor of Fine Art Photography by Rebecca in Morristown, Tennessee.
Phyllis Wilson Moore is retired from a career as a registered nurse. After attending the 1987 Appalachian Writers Workshop to hone her poetry, she set out to research, read, and write about the multicultural literature of West Virginia. She is now a leading expert. In 2004 she chaired the creation of the first official literary map of West Virginia. One of her poems first published in Appalachian Heritage serves as the epigraph for the West Virginia Encyclopedia and one of her essays first published here has been reprinted by Contemporary Authors. She lives in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Robert Morgan emerged onto the national literary scene with a novel, Gap Creek, which became an Oprah selection and a New York Times best seller, and now he is basking in the recent publication of The Road From Gap Creek. He has published fifteen volumes of poetry, three story collections, a biography of Daniel Boone, a book of history and another of literary criticism as well as five novels. Robert Morgan was given an Academy Award in 2007 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Joseph M. Schuster is the author of The Might Have Been (2012, Ballantine Books). A member of the faculty at Webster University in St. Louis, he has published short fiction in The Kenyon Review and other periodicals. He is married and...
