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English Instructor, Environmentalist, Poet, Filmmaker
Sylva, NC
Hilda Downer
Poet & Teacher
Sugar Grove, NC
W. Ralph Eubanks
B. Brian Foster
Richard Howorth
Founder and Owner
Square Books
Oxford, MS
Brent Martin
Author and Executive Director of Blue Ridge Bertram Trail Conservancy
Cowee, NC
Katie McKee
Professor of English
Director, Center for the Study of Southern Culture
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
Julian Rankin
Executive Director, Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Author of "Catfish Dream"
Ocean Springs, MS
Clinnesha Sibley
Playwright, Poet, Arts Educator
McComb, MS
Lee Stockdale
Owner, City Lights Bookstore
Sylva, NC
Rayborn Manor Bed and Breakfast
Tuskegee, AL
Mae Claxton
John Evans
Vivian Gibson
Rachel Hudson
Assistant Curator, Rowan Oak
Oxford, MS
Elon Justice
Garrett Martin
Nina Parikh
Curtis Rayborn
Tuskegee's Resident Historian & Storyteller
Tuskegee, AL
Jordan Rushing
Castel Sweet
Sociologist, Hip-Hop Scholar, Community Engagement Director
Oxford, MS
castelsweet.com
Author of Outbound Train
Cherokee, NC
Franklin, NC
Ellen Rodgers Daniels
John T. Edge
County Librarian
Jackson County Public Library
Sylva, NC
Dawn Gilchrist
English Teacher & Writer
Swain County High School
Sylva, NC
Ebony Lumumba
English Department Chair, Jackson State University Jackson, Mississippi
HC Porter
Lauren Rhoades
Director, Eudora Welty House
Jackson, MS
laurenrhoades.com
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Tema Stauffer
Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center
Lemuria Books
Mississippi Book Festival
Jackson, MS