George Scarbrough was born in a clapboard cabin in Patty, Polk County, Tennessee in 1915. He was the third of seven children in a family of sharecroppers which moved frequently around the County during his early years. He was an avid reader from his earliest years, and showed literary inclinations which seemed very strange in … Read more about George Scarbrough.
Wesley Sims has published one chapbook of poetry, When Night Comes (Finishing Line Press, 2013). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Connecticut Review, G. W. Review, South Carolina Review, Liquid Imagination, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, Praxis Magazine, The Avocet, Nature Writing, Plum Tree Tavern, Pangolin Review, Magnets and Ladders, Bewildering Stories, Breath … Read more about Wesley D. Sims.
Katherine Smith’s poems and fiction have appeared in a number of journals, among them Mezzo Cammin, Unsplendid, Measure, Fiction International, Gargoyle, Ploughshares, The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Atlanta Review, and Appalachian Heritage. Her first book, Argument by Design (Washington Writers’ Publishing House), appeared in 2003. She teaches at Montgomery College … Read more about Katherine Smith.
R. T. Smith was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Georgia and North Carolina. He was educated at Georgia Tech, UNC and Appalachian State and taught for nineteen years at Auburn University, where he served as Alumni Writer-in-Residence and co-editor of Southern Humanities Review. Since 1995 he has been the editor of Shenandoah for … Read more about R. T. Smith.
Susan O’Dell Underwood directs the creative writing program at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Besides two chapbooks (From and Love and Other Hungers) her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Oxford American, North Carolina Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Southern Poetry … Read more about Susan O’Dell Underwood.
Matt Urmy studied poetry as an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, then earned his MFA at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. He is a musician and recording artist, as well as a successful technology entrepreneur. He has also spent years studying the healing arts with a family of Maori healers from New Zealand. … Read more about Matt Urmy.
Dan Veach is the founder and for two decades the editor of Atlanta Review. His collection of poems and Chinese ink paintings, Elephant Water, won the Georgia Author of the Year Award. Dan’s translations from Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Anglo-Saxon have won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and the Independent Publisher Book Award. He is … Read more about Dan Veach.
Luke Whisnant’s In the Debris Field won the 2018 Bath Flash Fiction International Novella-in-Flash Award. His novel Watching TV with the Red Chinese was made into an independent film in 2011. His other books include the short story collection Down in the Flood and two poetry chapbooks. He teaches creative writing at East Carolina University, … Read more about Luke Whisnant.
Jon Manchip White was a distinguished Welsh-American writer who published over 35 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry over a long writing career. His works of fiction include both novels, collections of short stories and many scripts for film and television. His non-fiction books include history, biography, archaeology, anthropology, travel and personal essays. After … Read more about Jon Manchip White.
Dana Wildsmith is the author of a novel, Jumping, and an environmental memoir , Back to Abnormal: Surviving With An Old Farm in the New South, which was Finalist for Georgia Author of the Year. She is also the author of five collections of poetry. Wildsmith has served as Artist-in-Residence for Grand Canyon National Park … Read more about Dana Wildsmith.
