Managing editor Allen Mendenhall has published Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen Mendenhall. The publisher, Red Dirt Press, describes the book as follows: As a lawyer, Allen Mendenhall asks questions. As a writer, he’s interested in the craft. Combine these two and you get this, a collection of writers discussing writing. Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen […]
Managing Editor Allen Mendenhall Publishes “Writers on Writing”
Jessica Williams
Jessica Williams has a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from The University of Alabama. She has several years of career experience in the legal field as well as investigative services. A native of Grand Bay, Alabama, she lives in Central Florida with her husband and young son where she is a freelance writer, a […]
Fred Chappell
Fred Chappell is one of North Carolina’s most prolific writers. His long list of credits includes fiction, short stories, poetry, and criticism. He was born in Canton, a small town in western North Carolina. He attended Duke University and was a beloved professor of English for 40 years at UNC-Greensboro. He served as North Carolina’s […]
Phyllis Wilson Moore
Phyllis Wilson Moore, an avid reader of books set in the South, is a native of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. In 1953 she moved across the Mason-Dixon Line to attend nursing school and college and stayed. Like Robert Gipe, she is a product of the Hindman Settlement School Appalachian Writers Workshop. A poet and writer, she researches West […]
Brandy Renee McCann
Brandy Renee McCann, PhD, is an interdisciplinary writer and scholar whose work focuses on southern Appalachian people and stories. In addition to a regular craft column at Reckon Review, her creative work has appeared in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers: Barbara Kingsolver edition; Still: The Journal; Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel; and The Dead Mule, among others. Brandy works at Virginia […]
Susan Cushman
Susan Cushman is author of a novel, Cherry Bomb, and memoir, Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s, and editor of Southern Writers on Writing and A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be. Her essays have appeared in four anthologies and numerous journals and magazines. She was co-director of […]



