Mitzi Dorton

Mitzi Dorton is author of the book, “Chief Corn Tassel,” Finishing Line Press, 2022. A multi-genre writer, she has work in Rattle, SEMO Press, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Sheila-Na-Gig/Women of Appalachia Project, Esoterica, Northern Colorado Writers, 2020 Colorado Book Award in anthology, O: JA&L, Esoterica, and many others. Dorton is also a […]

Cat Pleska

Cat Pleska, a native West Virginian, is an award-winning author, educator, and storyteller. Her memoir, Riding on Comets was published by West Virginia University Press. Cat edited four anthologies and her stories and essays have appeared in The Appalachian Heritage Anthologies,  Still: The Journal, Heartwood Magazine, Change 7 Magazine, and many others. She teaches in […]

Robert Gwaltney

A graduate of Florida State University, Robert Gwaltney resides in Atlanta, Georgia. By day, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia, Inc., a non-profit organization that strengthens children and their families during the most critical times in their development. Through his non-profit work, he is a champion for early childhood literacy. Robert […]

Mitzi Dorton

Mitzi Dorton is author of the book, Chief Corn Tassel (Finishing Line Press, 2022). A multi-genre writer, she has work in Rattle, SEMO Press, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Sheila-Na-Gig/Women of Appalachia Project, Esoterica, Northern Colorado Writers, 2020 Colorado Book Award in anthology, O: JA&L, Esoterica, and many others. Dorton is also a […]

Debbie Floyd

Debbie Floyd is a native Floridan and one of the first female officers to go through the Jacksonville Police Academy. She has worked as a “campus cop” at the University of North Florida; taught fourth and fifth grade and gifted for nineteen years, earned a Master’s Degree and PhD, and served as Academic Vice President at […]

Betsy Reeder

Betsy Reeder is the author of the New River trilogy of historical fiction: Madam’s Creek, Broomstraw Ridge, and Salt in Boiling Water. She is also the writer/compiler of Broadus Unbound: The Oversized Will, Intellect, and Influence of a Small Baptist, a biographical collection of letters that illuminates the life of John A. Broadus, renowned preacher […]