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English Instructor, Environmentalist, Poet, Filmmaker
Sylva, NC
Hilda Downer
Poet & Teacher
Sugar Grove, NC
Dawn Gilchrist
English Teacher & Writer
Swain County High School
Sylva, NC
Brent Martin
Author and Executive Director of Blue Ridge Bertram Trail Conservancy
Cowee, NC
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
Playwright, Poet, Arts Educator
McComb, MS
Lee Stockdale
Owner, City Lights Bookstore
Sylva, NC
Tuskegee, AL
County Librarian
Jackson County Public Library
Sylva, NC
Richard Howorth
Founder and Owner
Square Books
Oxford, MS
Garrett Martin
Nina Parikh
Tuskegee's Resident Historian & Storyteller
Tuskegee, AL
Sociologist, Hip-Hop Scholar, Community Engagement Director
Oxford, MS
castelsweet.com
Author of Outbound Train
Cherokee, NC
Franklin, NC
Ellen Rodgers Daniels
Assistant Curator, Rowan Oak
Oxford, MS
English Department Chair, Jackson State University Jackson, Mississippi
HC Porter
Director, Eudora Welty House
Jackson, MS
laurenrhoades.com
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Jackson, MS