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
October 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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
September 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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
August 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
James Baresel
July 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
James Baresel has a Master of Arts in philosophy from Franciscan University and a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Cincinnati. He has taught high school classes in English, Latin and the history of art and now works as a freelance writer.
Anya Krugovoy Silver
June 27, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Anya Krugovoy Silver is a poet living in Macon, Georgia. She is the author of four books of poetry, The Ninety-Third Name of God (2010), I Watched You Disappear (2014), and From Nothing (2016), all published by the Louisiana State University Press. Her fourth book, Second Bloom, was published in 2017 as part of the Poiema Series of poetry by Cascade […]