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 River Rising (Iris Press, October 2016) tells the story of two white families who become unwitting pawns of the Ku Klux Klan.
Hubbell’s previous book A Town on Two Rivers, the history of a small town in the Ozarks, was based on over one hundred interviews combined with other historical texts. In 2015, Rowan and Littlefield published her chapter on storytelling and its effect on culture in their textbook Jim Hensen and Philosophy.
As a teacher, Dr. Hubbell has helped writers of all ages and at all stages of the writing process, although her favorite area is teaching composition at the college and adult levels. She is available for presentations to civic and educational groups, discussions for book clubs, and workshops at writers’ conferences. Please visit her website at www.victoriaphubbell.com for details as well as to view additional pictures from the Thompson and Crismon families and possible questions for discussion.
In accordance with both Hadley Thompson and Fred Crismon’s wishes and knowledge, half of Hubbell’s net proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Salvation Army in Missouri.
Judith Duvall has been passionate about writing since producing her first poem, a masterpiece in crayon, at age four. Her poetry has appeared in two anthologies from the Knoxville Writers’ Guild poetry groups: Bleeding Hearts and Familiar Landscapes, published by Tellico Books. Duvall’s work also appears in MOTIF Vol.3: All the Livelong Day and Kudzu Literary Journal. Her poem “In the Presence of Trees” won second place in Kudzu’s 2010 national poetry competition. Her fiction has been included in three anthologies by Greyhound Books and in the 2012 Knoxville Writers’ Guild anthology, A Tapestry of Voices. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Duvall currently lives near English Mountain and the shores of Douglas Lake in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
Tina Barr’s books include Green Target (2018), winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Brockman-Campbell Award, Kaleidoscope (Iris Press, 2015), The Gathering Eye (Tupelo Press Editor’s Prize), & 3 award-winning chapbooks. Her fellowships include the National Endowment for the Arts, The Tennessee Arts Commission, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and The MacDowell Colony. Her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Book Review, The Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Harvard Review, Louisiana Literature, Texas Review, Zone 3 and elsewhere.
She co-edits and founded The Shining Rock Poetry Anthology & Book Review: http://www.shiningrockpoetry.com
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Lisa Coffman grew up in East Tennessee and currently lives on California’s Central Coast—two locales that inspire and color her work. She has received fellowships for her poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. Her first collection of poetry, Likely, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize from Kent State University Press. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems; Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal; and the forthcoming Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee. An excerpt from her nonfiction manuscript in progress, “No Business, Tennessee,” received the 2010 Ingrid Reti Nonfiction Prize. She teaches at the California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo and lives in nearby Los Osos with her husband Joe and daughter Jenna.
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Cameron Conaway is the author of six books, including Chittagong (Iris Press) and Malaria, Poems (Michigan State University Press), which was an NPR Best Book of 2014. Conaway is a recipient of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Fellowship, an honor given to one journalist each year. His work has appeared in publications such as Newsweek, ESPN, The Guardian, Reuters, NPR, Forbes, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Rattle, and Stanford Social Innovation Review, among others. He’s received grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the International Reporting Project, been nominated for a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize, and been awarded writing residencies from Penn State University, the Wellcome Trust, and the University of Arizona. He teaches the #1 rated poetry course on Skillshare, and currently lives in San Francisco.
For more information visit: www.cameronconaway.com