Contributors
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Rob Amberg is a photographer from Madison County, North Carolina. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His first book, Sodom Laurel Album, received the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award of the Western North Carolina Historical Association. Find out more about Amberg and his work at www.robamberg.com.
Catherine Pritchard Childress lives in East Tennessee where she teaches writing and literature at East Tennessee State University and Northeast State Community College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in North American Review, Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, Still: The Journal, The Cape Rock, Town Creek Poetry, drafthorse, Stoneboat, Kaimana, and Kudzu, and has been anthologized in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee.
David Cornette is a 2014 graduate from Berea College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. While a student at Berea, he worked as an editor for Apollon: The Undergraduate Ejournal, as well as an assistant for Appalachian Heritage. He is currently interning with Grow Appalachia at the Hindman Settlement School and has a publication forthcoming in Still: The Journal.
Kevin Gardner has received numerous awards for his art, which has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally. Primarily a painter, his work is mostly perceptual and is frequently inspired by historic work. He holds a Certificate in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and an MFA in Painting from Indiana University-Bloomington. Gardner is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Berea College.
Rachel Garringer lives a stone’s throw from the sheep farm where she was raised in southeastern West Virginia. When not writing fiction she works as a youth advocate, interviews rural and small town LGBTQI folks for an oral history project called Country Queers, and [End Page 133] spends as much time as possible out in the garden and the woods. “Vultures,” which appeared in the Fall 2013 issue of Still: The Journal, was her first published work.
Denise Giardina is the author of six novels including the national bestsellers Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, and most recently, Emily’s Ghost. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Carol Grametbauer writes poetry in Kingston, Tennessee, where she is chair of the board of directors of Tennessee Mountain Writers. Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, POEM, The Cabinet, The Kerf, Still: The Journal, Fluent, and Maypop; and in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee and Remember September: Prompted Poetry. Her chapbook, Now & Then, was released by Finishing Line Press in March 2014.
Jesse Graves is the author of two poetry collections, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, and Basin Ghosts, and is co-editor of three volumes of the Southern Poetry Anthology series, including a forthcoming collection of North Carolina poets. He is also working with Dr. Michael Lofaro to edit The Collected Poems of James Agee.
Michael Henson is author of three books of fiction and four collections of poetry. His most recent work is The True Story of the Resurrection and Other Poems from Wind Publications. He is co-editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the annual publication of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative.
Janice Hornburg is a native Texan who transplanted to East Tennessee in 1993. Her chapbook, Perspectives, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2013. Her work has been anthologized in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Volume V and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. VI: Tennessee, and has appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Chapter 16, Town Creek Poetry, and Tennessee Voices.
Karen Salyer McElmurray’s Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey, was an AWP Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction. Her novels are The Motel of the Stars and Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven. Other stories and essays have appeared in Iron Horse, Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and River Teeth, and have [End Page 134] been widely anthologized. In Spring 2014, she was the Louis Rubin Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University.
Jim Minick is the author of four books, most recently The Blueberry Years, winner of the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year from Southern Independent Booksellers Association. He teaches at...
