A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia

About

Rose McLarney is an assistant professor of creative writing at Auburn University and co-editor in chief and poetry editor of the Southern Humanities Review. She has published two collections of poems Its Day Being Gonewinner of the National Poetry Seriesand The Always Broken Plates of Mountains. McLarney has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences and Warren Wilson College; was the 2016 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place and winner of the Chaffin Award at Morehead State; is the 2017 Summer Poet in Residence at University of Mississippi; and has received other prizes such as Fellowship of Southern Writers New Writing Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including the Kenyon Review the Southern Review New England Review Missouri Review and many other journals. McLarney earned her MFA from Warren Wilson's MFA Program for Writers and has taught at the college among other institutions.Laura-Gray Street is an associate professor of English and directs the Creative Writing Program at Randolph College in Lynchburg Virginia. She isthe author of Pigment and Fume and co-editor with Ann Fisher-Wirth of The Ecopoetry Anthology. She has been the recipient of poetry prizes from The Greensboro Review the Dana Awards the Southern Women Writers Conference Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing and Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. Her work has been published in the Colorado Review Poecology Poet Lore Poetry Daily Hawk & Handsaw Many Mountain Moving Gargoyle ISLE Shenandoah Meridian Blackbird the Notre Dame Review and elsewhere; and supported by fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts the Artist House at St. Mary's College in Maryland and the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences where she was the Garland Distinguished Fellow. Street holds an MA from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.L. L. Gaddy is a naturalist/writer based in South Carolina. He holds a Ph. D. in Biogeography from the University of Georgia. He heads terra incognita a non-profit company in South Carolina that does environmental consulting research and exploration and is president of terra incognita books which publishes natural history and travel books. He is the author of Spiders of the Carolinas and A Naturalists Guide to the Southern Blue Ridge Front.Justin Gardiner a native of the Northwest now teaches at Auburn University where he also serves as the nonfiction editor of the Southern Humanities Review. He is a recipient of the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Fellowship as well as the Post-Graduate Larry Levis Stipend in poetry from Warren Wilsons MFA Program. His writing has appeared in the Missouri Review Blackbird Quarterly West and ZYZZYVA.Sean Hill is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He received his MFA from the University of Houston in 2003 and was awarded a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing in 2006. Hill's poems have been published widely in journals including Callaloo Indiana Review and Ploughshares.John Lane is a professor of English and environmental studies at Wofford College. His books include Circling Home My Paddle to the Sea and Coyote Settles the South (all Georgia). He also coedited with Gerald Thurmond The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South (also Georgia). He has published several volumes of poetry essays and a novel as well as a selection of his online columns The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph. Anthropocene Blues: Poems is his most recent work.