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Contributors
LINDA BROWN is a former Nashville songwriter. She won a first place in Florida's Freelance Writers' Association contest for literary short story and second and third places in the Virginia Highlands Creative Writing contest.
STEPHEN FRANKLIN CLARK graduated this spring from high school and will attend St. John's College in Annapolis in January. He lives in Bristol, Tenn., where he writes poetry and plays the piano and guitar. He won first and second place in poetry last year at the Virginia Highlands Festival Creative Writing Contest, and first place in fiction a previous year.
KELLY DVORAK lives in Kelowna, British Columbia, at the edge of a beautiful lake. She has a five year old daughter, who has "taught me more about language than any formal education could." She has been published in several Canadian literary publications, including A Room of One's Own, Zygote, and an anthology of Okanagan writers, The Greenboathouse Reader.
ANGELA EADES is a graduate student at Radford University. She has had two poems published in The Mockingbird, East Tennessee State University's literary journal. She lives in Abingdon, Va.
HOLLY FARRIS, a writer from Draper, Virginia, has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her first book, To Have and To Hold, is a collection of
short fiction focusing on family in Appalachia. It is due from Women's Work Press in 2001.
DON GILLILAND is working toward an MFA at the University of Alabama. Originally from Tennessee, he lives in Birmingham, Ala.
In 1982 when CAROL JACKSON penned the first chapter of a children's story,
she began to fulfill the dream of writing prose and poetry.
She is currently the chairperson for the Lost State Writers Guild of
Northeast Tennessee. This group of diverse writers was formed in 1996 to provide
support to the local authors .
Carol is a member of the Watauga Chapter of Pen Women and the Bristol
Art Guild.
EDISON JENNINGS lives in Abingdon, Va. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson.
NELL MAIDEN lives in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Reflections in a Clockshop from the Sow's Ear Press.
BRIGITTE MCCRAY graduated from Emory & Henry
College in 1999. While there, she was editor of Ampersand, the literary
art's magazine, and won the Leidig prize in poetry, which was judged by
poet Kelly Cherry. Her poetry has also appeared in the journal Mobius.
She has worked as a staff reporter for both The Bristol Herald Courier
and the Charlottesville Weekly. Currently, she teaches at the Fluvanna
Correctional Center for Women. Originally from Southwest Virginia,
Brigitte now lives outside of Charlottesville with her aunt and uncle and
her dog Daisy.
BENJAMIN OPPEN, of St. Charles, La., is an artist and designer of theatrical masks. His work can be seen onstage all over the Southeast.
SAM RASNAKE, a student of foreign films, baseball and Texas songwriters, is the author of Necessary Motions and Religions of the Blood. He lives with his family in East Tennessee, where he spends much of his time trying to comprehend Fa-Yen's "the one great matter."
LISA SCHRODER teaches at King College in Bristol, Tenn.
R.A. SKEENS is a retired coal miner and poet who lives in Bristol, Va. In addition to poems in several magazines, he won a first-place award in the Virginia Highlands Festival Creative Writing contest in 1998, and recently received a second-place recognition from the Virginia Poetry Society.
ADAM ZAFTIG teaches radiology at Jim Bridger Community College in Kalispell, Montana. This is his first publication.
