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Frye Gaillard
Frye Gaillard, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, has written extensively on Southern race relations, politics and culture. He is former Southern Editor at The Charlotte Observer, where he covered Charlotte's landmark school desegregation controversy, the ill-fated ministry of televangelist Jim Bakker, the funeral of Elvis Presley, and the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
Gaillard has written or edited more than twenty books, and his award-winning titles include the following: Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina; Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music; If I Were a Carpenter: Twenty Years of Habitat for Humanity; Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy; and As Long As the Waters Flow: Native Americans in the South and East. His most recent release is The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir, published in the fall of 2012.
Gaillard now lives on the Alabama Gulf Coast with his wife, Nancy, who teaches in the College of Education at the University of South Alabama. Visit Frye Gaillard on the web at fryegaillard.blogspot.com.
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Janine Boldrin
Janine Boldrin is a local author, freelance journalist, and military spouse who moved with her family to Adams, Tennessee, when her husband was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. Boldrin is a contributing writer to Military Spouse, AmeriForce Publishing's annual Finance Guide, Military Families magazine, and Fort Campbell Families magazine. Her writing focuses on the military, military families, home solutions, and pets. Boldrin's articles and essays have appeared in over sixty regional and national publications to include Family Circle, The Washington Times, and the Cup of Comfort anthology series. She also contributes to The Huffington Post on military life issues. At the end of 2012, Boldrin launched the first in a series of e-books, The Thinking Spouse's Guide to Military Life, to help military spouses make better decisions for their mobile families. Janine also volunteers as the Fort Campbell Chapter Director for Blue Star Families.
As a military spouse, Boldrin has moved six times in the past thirteen years and has helped her family of five through three deployments with a fourth on the horizon. As a passionate supporter of service members and their families, Boldrin hopes to encourage veterans and family members who are interested in writing to get their work out into the world so the public can understand the experiences of military and their loved ones. Visit Janine Boldrin's website at www.janineboldrin.com.
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Debbie Carter
Debbie Carter's agency, Muse Literary Management in New York City, is listed in the Literary Market Place, Writer's Digest guides, and Writers' & Artists' Yearbook. Prior to starting her agency in 1998, Debbie trained with an AAR literary agent, and worked in the music business in A&R and artist management. She holds a BA in English and music from NYU's College of Arts and Science.
Debbie is looking for writing with charisma for adults and children. Interests include literary novels; short story and poetry collections by writers who have won prizes or published in literary journals; mysteries/thrillers/suspense novels; multicultural and international fiction relatable to American readers; as well as narrative nonfiction about extraordinary people and experiences in memoir/biography, home & lifestyle, travel, history, pop culture, music and the arts, New York, Americana, nostalgia, antiques and anything not mentioned here that writers think may interest her. Debbie is also interested in children's literature (picture books and up) and teens' multicultural fiction, mysteries and thrillers, historical fiction, animal stories, fantasy grounded in reality, narrative nonfiction and serious nonfiction.
This year, Debbie is eager to see writers who have made significant progress on their manuscripts and have a plan for building their names in print as freelance journalists. Publishers will submit books for reviews but are looking for writers with a platform. Visit Debbie Carter on the web at www.museliterary.com and on Twitter @MuseLiterary.
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Beth Ann Fennelly
Beth Ann Fennelly is an associate professor at the University of Mississippi, where she was named the 2011 Outstanding Liberal Arts Teacher of the Year. She has received a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Award and a 2006 United States Artist Grant.
Fennelly has published three books of poetry, all from W. W. Norton: Open House, which won The 2001 Kenyon Review Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and was a Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Pick; Tender Hooks; and Unmentionables. Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother, a book of nonfiction, was published by Norton in 2006. Her poems have been reprinted in Best American Poetry 1996, 2005, and 2006, Contemporary American Poetry, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Pushcart Prize, and Poets of the New Century. She won a Fulbright grant to Brazil and spent the spring of 2009 there alongside her husband, fiction writer Tom Franklin, and their three small children. In October, HarperCollins will publish the novel The Tilted World, co-written by Fennelly and Franklin.
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Tom Franklin
Tom Franklin is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which was nominated for nine awards and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include the Edgar-winning story "Poachers" from the collection under the same title, as well as 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.
Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, Franklin has been the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at Ole Miss, the Tennessee Williams Writer-in-Residence at Sewanee, and the Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. He currently teaches at Ole Miss and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their three children. His new novel, The Tilted World, co-written with Fennelly, is slated for an October release by William Morrow/HarperCollins.
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Rheta Grimsley Johnson
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, including 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 and, in 1991, 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.
Johnson is the author of several books, including America's Faces (1987) and Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz (1989). In 2000 she wrote the text for a book of photographs entitled Georgia. NewSouth Books published her memoirs Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana (2008), Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010), and her latest, Hank Hung the Moon, a musical memoir about Hank Williams.
A native of Colquitt, Georgia, Johnson grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, studied journalism at Auburn University, and has lived and worked in the South all of her career. She lives in Iuka, Mississippi.
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Gina Panettieri
Gina Panettieri, President of Milford, Connecticut-based Talcott Notch Literary, is a twenty-year publishing veteran with expertise in every aspect of writing and publishing. She has successfully placed hundreds of books with such well-known publishers as Berkley, St. Martin's Press, Adams Media, Palgrave-Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and many others. She has also appeared as a speaker at scores of national and regional conferences, leading workshops on a range of subjects ranging from characterization, dialogue and query letters, to the changing publishing market, publicity and new trends in fiction.
Gina is currently seeking a full range of fiction and nonfiction for both adults and children. In nonfiction, she is looking for business, self-help, science, gardening, cookbooks, crafts, parenting, memoir, true crime and travel. With fiction, she loves quirky, edgy characters. Pitch her women's fiction, paranormal, urban fantasy, horror, science fiction, historical, mystery, thrillers and suspense. She loves realistic contemporary YA fiction, and humorous or 'slightly spooky' middle-grade fiction. Visit the agency on the web at www.talcottnotch.net and follow Gina on Twitter @ginapanettieri.
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Dale Ray Phillips
A native of Haw River, North Carolina, Dale Ray Phillips is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated story collection My People's Waltz. His short stories have appeared in the anthology Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader, Best American Short Stories, Best Stories from the South, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, GQ, Zoetrope and literary quarterlies.
Phillips earned an MFA from the University of Arkansas and has taught at a variety of universities, most recently at Murray State University, where he held the endowed Watkins Chair in Creative Writing appointment and now serves as an assistant professor.
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Adam Ross
Adam Ross was born and raised in New York City and attended the Trinity School, where he was a state champion wrestler. A child actor, he has appeared in movies, commercials, and television shows, as well as on radio dramas such as "The Eternal Light" and E.G. Marshall's "Mystery Theater." He graduated with departmental honors in English from Vassar College and holds an M.A. and M.F.A. in creative writing from Hollins University and Washington University respectively.
Ross and his wife relocated to Nashville in 1995, where they continue to reside with their two daughters. From 1999 to 2003, he was a feature writer and special projects editor for the Nashville Scene, the city's alternative weekly. His column, "Mondo Nashville," covered the city's local oddballs and off-kilter luminaries. His cover stories ranged in subjects from the city's porn king, Al Woods, to race relations, to interviews with homegrown movie star, Reese Witherspoon. He also wrote extensively on books and film. His nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Book Review, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and The Nashville Scene. His fiction has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly and FiveChapters.
Mr. Peanut, a 2010 New York Times Notable Book, was also named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Republic, and The Economist. Ladies and Gentlemen, his short story collection, was included in Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2011. Visit Adam Ross on the web at www.adam-ross.com.
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Chuck Sambuchino
Chuck Sambuchino is an editor for Writer's Digest Books and the editor of annual resource books Guide to Literary Agents and Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. The accompanying blog to his Guide to Literary Agents (guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog) is one of the largest blogs in publishing. He has recently begun a freelance editing business to critique queries, synopses and manuscripts (chucksambuchino.com).
Sambuchino's 2010 humor book, How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack (gnomeattack.com), has been featured by Reader's Digest, USA Today, the New York Times and AOL News. The film rights were recently optioned by Sony and director Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future). His second humor book, Red Dog / Blue Dog (2012), is a humorous photo collection of dogs doing liberal and conservative things.
Sambuchino has also written two other writing-related titles: the third edition of Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript (2009), as well as Create Your Writer Platform (Fall 2012).
Besides that, he is a produced playwright, writer of more than 700 published articles, husband, sleep-deprived new father, cover band guitarist, piano addict, chocolate chip cookie fiend, and owner of a flabby-yet-lovable dog named Graham.
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Ann Shayne
Ann Shayne may not have seen it all when it comes to publishing, but she's seen a fair amount as book editor, book review editor, blogger and author. She worked in the editorial departments of Simon & Schuster, Viking, and Crown in New York; was VP and editor of the book review BookPage; was co-author of two best-selling books, Mason-Dixon Knitting and Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines (Potter Craft/Random House). She began a blog with Kay Gardiner ten years ago, Mason-Dixon Knitting, that continues today with more than 100,000 readers a month.
Shayne's most recent adventure is as the author of Bowling Avenue, a novel of family, love and disasters both natural and man made, set in Nashville. Published last June, it has become the best-selling book at Parnassus Books in Nashville and is selling nationwide as well. When people ask who her publisher is, she says, "Me! I am a publishing conglomerate." She is a graduate of Davidson College, University School of Nashville, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course. Visit Ann Shayne on the web at www.annshayne.com.
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George Singleton
George Singleton is the author of five collections of stories, two novels, and one book on writing advice. His short stories have appeared in such magazines and journals as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and Zoetrope. His non-fiction has appeared in Garden and Gun, Bark, Oxford American and elsewhere. His work has appeared in twelve editions of New Stories from the South, and in Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader, among a number of other anthologies. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2009, and the Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2011.
Singleton has taught English and writing on the secondary level, at technical colleges, at four year institutions, and in MFA graduate programs. In the Fall of 2013 he will hold the John C. Cobb Professor of Humanities endowed chair at Wofford College.
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