Adam Van Winkle is the author of the novel, Abraham Anyhow, which was selected by Southern Literary Review as the June 2017 “Read of the Month.” The follow up novel, While They were in the Field, releases in 2019. His prose has appeared in Bull Men’s Fiction, Cheap POP!, Pithead Chapel, Steel Toe Review, Red […]
Jessica Williams
December 19, 2018 by 1 Comment
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
December 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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 […]