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William R. Ferris, a widely recognized leader in Southern studies, African American music and folklore, is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the senior associate director of its Center for the Study of the American South. He is also adjunct professor in the curriculum on folklore.
Darnell Arnoult is the prize-winning author of What Travels With Us: Poems (LSU Press) and the novel Sufficient Grace (Free Press). Her shorter works have appeared in a variety of journals. Arnoult is Writer-in-Residence and Assistant Professor of English at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN. She holds an MFA from University of Memphis and MA from North Carolina State University and is a regular faculty member of the Table Rock Writers Workshop, Tennessee Young Writers Workshop, John C. Campbell Folk School, Learning Events, and the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, KY. She is the recipient of the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature, SIBA Poetry Book of the Year, Mary Frances Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, and in 2007 was named Tennessee Writer of the Year by the Tennessee Writers Alliance. Visit her on the web at www.darnellarnoult.com.
Sarah Blackman is the Director of Creative Writing at the Fine Arts Center, a public arts high school in Greenville, South Carolina, and the co-fiction editor of DIAGRAM. Her most recent work has been published or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Laurel Review, and The Missouri Review. Her fiction chapbook Such a Thing as America is available from Burnside Review Press.
Lindsey Clemons joined Larsen Pomada Literary Agents in 2009 as an intern for both the agency and the San Francisco Writers Conference working directly for agency co-founder Elizabeth Pomada. Now, fulfilling her dream of working in the literary world, she is the agency's newest Associate Agent. Lindsey graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a BA in Film and Electronic Arts and a minor in Creative Writing. Although she has since put down her pen, she is certain that she will resume writing short stories someday. Combining her love for traveling and learning, Lindsey has studied literature and the arts in Florence, Dublin, and New York at Columbia University.
Blas Falconer is an assistant professor at Austin Peay State University, where he serves as the poetry editor of Zone 3 Magazine/Zone 3 Press. He is the author of The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2006) and A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007).
Beth Ann Fennelly is an associate professor at the University of Mississippi, and lives in Oxford, Mississippi. She has received a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Award and a 2006 United States Artist Grant.
Tom Franklin is the author of The New York Times Bestselling novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Harper-Collins, 2010), which recently earned an LA Times Book Prize for "Best Mystery/Thriller." Franklin's other novels include Smonk and Hell at the Breech, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award and the Alabama Librarians Award and optioned for film by singer Tim McGraw. His collection of stories, Poachers, whose title novella won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, was reprinted in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century.
William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Literature" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, which won the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night, which was recently adapted into a film starring Kris Kristofferson, Val Kilmer and Dwight Yoakam. His third novel Twilight is Southern Gothic, with its elements of the grotesque and perverse, its psychological extremes and its fixations on violence and sex. His books have been hailed by the critics, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Review of Books, The Washington Post Book World, Library Journal and USA Today.
Born in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains near Knoxville, Tennessee, Amy Greene began writing stories about the people of Appalachia from a very young age. In high school English class she discovered writers who provided further inspiration: Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and the Brontë sisters. In 2003, married with two small children, Greene enrolled in Vermont College's low–residency undergraduate program and left the South for the first time on twice yearly trips to the Montpelier campus. It was during this time that she began work on her first novel, Bloodroot. Before graduating in early 2008, Greene attended the 2007 Sewanee Writers' Conference on the campus of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where she met writer Jill McCorkle, who introduced her to New York literary agent Leigh Feldman. A month later, Greene learned that Bloodroot would be published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson has covered the South for over three decades as a newspaper reporter and columnist. She writes about ordinary but fascinating people, mining for universal meaning in individual stories. In past reporting for United Press International, The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and a number of other regional newspapers, Johnson has won national awards. They include the Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for human interest reporting (1983), the Headliner Award for commentary (1985), the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for commentary (1982). In 1986 she was inducted into the Scripps Howard Newspapers Editorial Hall of Fame. In 1991 Johnson was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Syndicated today by King Features of New York, Johnson's column appears in about 150 papers nationwide.
David James Poissant's stories appear or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Playboy, The Chicago Tribune, The Southern Review, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, One Story, and in the anthologies New Stories from the South 2008 and Best New American Voices 2008 and 2010.
Stephanie Pruitt is a poet, arts educator and dot-connecting, innovative thinker. This Cave Canem Fellow and member of the Affrilachian Poets received the 2010 Academy of American Poets Prize, the 2009 Sedberry Prize and was a finalist for Poets and Writers' Maureen Egen Award. Essence Magazine selected her as one of their "40 Favorite Poets" in 2010.
John Pursley III teaches at Clemson University. He is the author of If You Have Ghosts, the Editors’ Poetry Prize Selection for Zone 3 Press, and four chapbooks, A Story Without Poverty (Stepping Stones Press 2010), Supposing, for Instance, Here in the Space-Time Continuum (Apprentice House Press 2009), A Conventional Weather (New Michigan Press 2007) and When, by the Titanic (Portlandia Press 2006). His work has appeared in AGNI, Mississippi Review, and Poetry.
Chuck Sambuchino is an editor for Writer's Digest Books (an imprint of F+W Media). He is the editor of two annual resource books: Guide to Literary Agents, as well as Screenwriter's & Playwright's Market. He also assists in editing Writer's Market. He recently helmed the third edition of Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript (a WD trade book), and he has a new humor book with Ten Speed Press/Random House, How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (And They Will).
Gordon Warnock is a Literary Agent with Andrea Hurst Literary Management, and has a degree in Creative and Professional Writing. He works diligently with authors to develop and polish their manuscripts and book proposals. With a zest for fresh, new writing and a deep love of the classics, Gordon always has his eye out for works which will not only thrive in the current market but will also withstand the test of time.
Meredith Sue Willis was raised in Shinnston, West Virginia, where her father's family came following jobs with Consolidation Coal Company. She has roots and relatives in southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. She now lives in New Jersey near New York City where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies as well as a frequent visiting writer-in-the-schools in New York and New Jersey. She has degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University as well as an honorary doctorate from West Virginia University.
Amy Wright is the Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press and the author of two chapbooks, Farm (Finishing Line Press: 2010) and There Are No New Ways To Kill A Man (Apostrophe Books: 2009). Her prose and poetry appear in numerous literary journals, including Sonora Review, Asymptote, American Letters & Commentary, Quarter After Eight, 5x5, Bellingham Review, Quarterly West, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Southern Appalachia. |
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