Laura Terry is an Associate Professor of Architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. She also maintains an active art and writing practice. When not teaching or painting, she can be found exploring the woods of the Ozarks.
Betsy Reeder
Betsy Reeder is a retired biologist and college educator, as well as a doting grandma. She is the author of a historical fiction trilogy set in the New River region of West Virginia: Madam’s Creek, Broomstraw Ridge, and Salt in Boiling Water. She is also the author of the Civil-war-era novel Tupper’s Coins and the […]
J. Michael Dew
Michael Dew is a Professor of English at Georgia State University – Perimeter College. His books include Gadly Plain (Cladach Publishing 2013) and All the Bad Things (currently out of print). He is the creator of The Professor’s Bayonet, which is a weekly podcast that explores literature and theology with an eye toward social commentary.
Ethel Morgan Smith
Ethel Morgan Smith writes creative nonfiction and historical fiction. She has published three books: Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement. (August 2023) winner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize; From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (2000 & 2017); and Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany […]
Elizabeth Soule
Elizabeth Soule is a writer of young adult fiction living on the Gulf Coast of Florida with her husband and two young daughters. With a B.A. in Theatre Arts and a background teaching art and elementary school, she brings an aspect of the artistic world to all her writing––especially as it relates to introspective teens […]
Linda Parsons
Poet, playwright, essayist, and editor, Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. She is published in such journals as The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, and many others. Her sixth collection, Valediction, contains poems […]