Karen Head is the author of Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (a nonfiction book about issues in contemporary higher education), as well as four books of poetry (Sassing, My Paris Year, Shadow Boxes, and On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year). She also co-edited the poetry anthology Teaching as a Human Experience: An … Read more about Karen Head.
A native Alabamian, Thomas Alan Holmes spent many years on the staff and masthead of The Black Warrior Review while completing his graduate degrees at the University of Alabama. He is co-editor of Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture (with Roxanne Harde, Lexington Books, 2013), Jeff Daniel Marion: Poet on the Holston … Read more about Thomas Alan Holmes.
Writer Victoria Hubbell, Ph.D. enjoys both conducting research and talking to people. As a result, she writes oral histories about fascinating people, places, and events.Writer Victoria Hubbell, Ph.D. enjoys both conducting research and talking to people. As a result, she writes oral histories about fascinating people, places, and events. Her most recent book Blood … Read more about Victoria Pope Hubbell.
Jessie Janeshek’s second full-length book of poems is The Shaky Phase (Stalking Horse Press). Her chapbooks are Spanish Donkey/Pear of Anguish (Grey Book Press), Rah-Rah Nostalgia (dancing girl press), Hardscape (Reality Beach), Supernoir (Grey Book Press), and Auto-Harlow (Shirt Pocket Press). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.F.A. from Emerson … Read more about Jessie Janeshek.
Jamie Elliott Keith, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Tennessee, spent many years in the business world writing IT application specifications, procedural and training manuals, and large corporate contracts. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she now volunteers and writes where the muses lead her. Her poems have appeared in Tule … Read more about Jamie Elliott Keith.
Robert Lee Kendrick grew up in Illinois and Iowa, but now calls South Carolina home. After earning his M.A. from Illinois State University and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, he held a number of jobs, ranging from house painter to pizza driver to grocery store worker to line cook. He now lives … Read more about Robert Lee Kendrick.
Austin Kodra lives in Cambridge, MA, where he works as a recruiter in the tech industry. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and his writing has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Harpur Palate, Superstition Review, Connotations Press: an Online Artifact, Prime Number Magazine, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere.
C. Ann Kodra grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. She now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her husband. Her poetry and short stories have appeared or are pending in journals and anthologies, including Birmingham Arts Journal, Blueline, Cavalier Literary Couture, Common Ground Review, Cutthroat (online), drafthorse, MOTIF (vol. 1 & 3), Now … Read more about C. Ann Kodra.
Born in Nicholson, Georgia in 1924, the daughter of a rural farmer and a mail carrier, Lewis attended Georgia State College for Women (1943-1946) where she joined in the work for women’s rights, civil rights, and social justice. With a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, she has taught Appalachian Studies and lectured widely at … Read more about Helen Matthews Lewis.
Richard Lyons has taught literature and creative writing for more than two decades at Mississippi State University. Lyons is a former winner of the “Discovery” Award from The Nation and the 92nd Street YHMA in New York City and the Lavan Younger Poet’s Prize from the chancellors of the Academy of American Poets in New … Read more about Richard Lyons.
