H. Wayne
Bowman has had work
published in The Exquisite Corpse, Eclectica, Stark Raving Sanity, and the Write This literary reviews, and was included
in the recently published Fish Drink Like Us short story anthology. Bowman
serves as Professor of Theatre and Coordinator of Dramatic and Theatre arts at
Ferrum College where he is in his twenty-sixth year on the faculty.
A native
West Virginian, Ed Davis has taught writing, literature and humanities courses at Sinclair Community
College since 1978. In addition, he founded Sinclair's literary magazine, Flights, was assistant director of the
Antioch Writers' Workshop, conducted poetry and fiction workshops for a number
of local organizations and institutions and has judged local writing contests.
An award-winning short story writer, Davis' latest novel is The Measure of
Everything (2005).
After
growing up in Fieldale, Virginia, Linda Hollandsworth taught English in the Henry County
Public Schools for many years. She also taught part-time at Patrick Henry
Community College and Ferrum College, where she graduated with an Associate's
degree. Her work has appeared in Studies in Short Fiction, Southern
Quarterly, and Texas College English. She currently teaches English
at Coastal Carolina University and lives in Myrtle Beach, SC, with her husband,
Peter Lecouras, also an English professor, and their cat, Simba.
Deborah
Huso is a freelance
writer based in Warm Springs, Virginia. She has written feature articles, news
items, essays, and short stories for a variety of publications, some of which
have included Country Home, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washingtonian,
The Washington Times, Now & Then, Virginia Living, Blue Ridge Country,
Military Appalachian Voice, Appalachian Life, Huntington Quarterly, and Hampton Roads Magazine, among others. She also served as assistant editor of Of
the People, By the People, For the People, a collection of Abraham Lincoln quotations
published by Columbia University Press in 1996, and won first place in 2003
from the Virginia Press Association for in-depth writing and reporting.
Virginia
resident Charles Shea LeMone is a published novelist and poet. His Avon Books mystery, A Dance in the Street, is available at Amazon.com. The screenplay version of A Told Story has been optioned as a possible
made-for-TV movie. Another of his short stories, A Testimonial, appears in an early edition of 3
AM Magazine.
Ed Lynskey is a productive short story writer and poet, perhaps best known for his Frank Johnson, PI mysteries. Lynskey's novels include The Blue Cheer (Point Blank/Wildside Press, 2006), The Dirt-Brown Derby (Mundania Press, 2006), and Pelham Fell Here (Mundania Press, 2007).
Dale Neal lives and works as a journalist in Thomas Wolfe's hometown of Asheville, N.C. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Arts & Letters, Carolina Quarterly, the Marlboro Review and elsewhere. When he's not roaming the Mountains-to-Sea trail, he's usually working on a novel set in Western North Carolina.
Lynn Pruett's novel Ruby River, set in the mountains of Alabama,
was published by Atlantic Monthly Press.
Her fiction has been published in numerous magazines. She is a recipient of fellowships from
the Kentucky Arts Council and Yaddo.
One branch of her family has lived in the mountains in Whitley and
McCreary Counties in Kentucky since 1800.
She resides in Oxford, Mississippi.
Crystal Wilkinson is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University--Bloomington and is also a member of the creative writing faculty at Spalding University. She is the 2002 recipient of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature and is a member of a Lexington-based writing collective, The Affrilachian Poets. She is the author of two books, Blackberries, Blackberries (2000), and Water Street (2002), both published by Toby Press.
Casey Clabough, who is the Literature Editor of the Online Virginia Encyclopedia, teaches literature at Lynchburg College. He has published two books of criticism of Southern novelists, and many articles in scholarly journals.
Steven R. Cope, from KY, is the author of four collections of poetry, a novel, and a collection of his fables and tales, The Book of Saws; has taught lit/poetry workshops at UK, EKU, and MSU and, through the years, 100s of guitar students; has also edited several important works, most recently Harry Brown’s Felt Along the Blood: New & Selected Poems (2005); and is presently at work on a collection of his own stories & anti-stories, thus far called Hannibal's Messiah.
David Hopes is professor of literature and language at the University
of North Carolina at Asheville, founder and editor of Urthona Press, and founder
and director of the Black Swan Theater Company (Swanthtre@aol.com). He is the author of the Juniper
Prize and Saxifrage Prize winning book, The Glacier's Daughters, the Pulitzer-and-National-Book
Award-nominated A Childhood in the Milky Way, and several other titles. His work
has appeared in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Audubon, Christopher Street, and The Sun.
Bill King is Associate Professor of English at Davis and Elkins
College. He has published critical essays on the works of two Poet Laureates of
the United States, Robert Penn Warren and Robert Hass, and some of his own
poetry in Wild Sweet Notes II: More West Virginia Poetry (2005). His favorite courses include Creative
Writing, Literary Criticism, and American Nature Writing.
Sebastian Matthews teaches at Warren Wilson College and edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal.
His poems have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, New England Review, Post Road, and Seneca Review, among others. He recently completed a memoir, In
My Father's Footsteps
(2004), and co-edited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews (2004). He was
a Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2003.
.
Maureen
Alsop's poems
appear or are pending in Columbia: A Journal of Arts and Letters, 88,
Margie, Typo, Arsenic Lobster, among others. Her poetry has
been twice nominated for the pushcart prize. She lives and works in Palm
Springs California.
Glenda Barrett is a native of North Georgia, an artist and a freelance writer with publications in numerous magazines and anthologies.
Patrick
Carmody's poetry
tends to emphasize the social interaction between humans and their
environments, whether beast, society as a whole, or the landscape. For him, writing is both a method of
discovery of the human spirit and a therapeutic remedy for stress. He is a double major in psychology and
religion at Emory & Henry College, with plans to enter graduate school in
psychology.
Catherine
Emanuel is
Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee Wesleyan
College in Athens, Tennessee. Her
work has been published in
The Cold
Mountain Review, The
Phoenix, Southern
Voices in Every Direction and The New Mountain Free Press.
Mark
Jackley is a
business writer who lives in the Washington, DC, area. His poems have appeared
in numerous reviews and his chapbook, Brevities, will be published later this year
by Ginninderra Press.
Isai graduated from King College in
Bristol, Tennessee. He lives in
Athens, Georgia where he writes and lives poetically.
Rachel Jennings is originally from Anderson County in East Tennessee, and
much of her poetry and scholarship concerns that area of the Appalachian
region. Since 1987, she has mostly lived in Texas, where she is an instructor in the English Department
at San Antonio College.
Leatha Kendrick is the author of two volumes of poetry,
a chapbook (Science in Your Own Back Yard) and Heart Cake. She has
been a staff member of the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman,
Kentucky. Along with George Ella Lyon, she co-edited Crossing Troublesome:
Twenty-Five Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop.
Joanna
Knowles is a
writer, bartender, raft guide and student. She lives in downtown Asheville with her partner and their
two dogs.
George Ella
Lyon was born and raised in Harlan County, Kentucky. She is the author of With
a Hammer for My Heart (a novel), Catalpa (poems, winner of the Appalachian Book of the
Year Award) and Where I'm From, Where Poems Come From, a primer for young
poets. Her books for young readers include three novels (Borrowed Children, The Stranger I Left
Behind,
and Here and Then), nineteen picture books (among them Come a Tide, Together, Who Came Down That
Road?, Counting
on the Woods and Book), and an autobiography, A Wordful Child. Married to musician
and young adult novelist Steve Lyon, she lives in Lexington, Kentucky, and has
two sons.
Sebastian Matthews teaches at Warren Wilson College and
edits Rivendell,
a place-based literary journal. His poems have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, New England Review, Post Road, and Seneca Review, among others. He recently completed a memoir, In
My Father's Footsteps
(2004), and co-edited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews (2004). He was
a Bernard De Voto Fellow in Nonfiction Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2003.
.
Author
of an essay collection titled Finding a Clear Path, Jim Minick lives,
writes and farms in Wythe County, Virginia. He teaches in the English
Department at Radford University, and is helping organize the Blue
Ridge Forest Cooperative, a business practicing sustainable forestry.
He's currently working on a memoir about a blueberry farm.
Winner of
an NEA poetry fellowship, Ron Rash has published three collections of poetry and two of short
stories. Currently a resident of South Carolina, he holds the John Parris Chair
in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University.
Morgan Richards grew up in the Ohio Valley of West Virginia and is
currently studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Emory & Henry
College in Emory, Virginia.
Katherine Soniat's The Fire Setters is available through Web Del Sol On-line Chapbook Series. Her fourth collection, Alluvial, was published by Bucknell University Press, and A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Work is forthcoming in River Styx, Willow Springs, Iowa Review, Southern Review, Hotel Amerika, Tiferet, and Arts and Letters. She teaches in the MFA Program at Virginia Tech and lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Amanda
M. Yonas has
recently returned to Buckhannon, West Virginia after spending the summer months
teaching English in China. She writes, paints, and enjoys attending classes at
West Virginia Wesleyan College, where she is pursuing a B.A. Recent published works, Drink Her Up and Lost in the Switch, were honored by the Green River
Writer's Contest in Kentucky.
