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2007 Authors

Color Code: Kids' Authors - Novelists, Poets & Playwrights - Historians

	Dr. Lloyd Bailey (historian, professor) Born in Yancey in 1936, Dr. Bailey taught for 28 years in the divinity school of Duke University, and is (in retirement) professor of religion at Mount Olive College and Methodist College. He has published five large volumes of the series *Heritage of Toe River Valley* and has four more in preparation. As an authority on the history and genealogy of the Toe River Valley (the counties of Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey in Western North Carolina) he has published several other volumes: *History of the Methodist Church in the Toe River Valley, History of the Bailey family of Yancey County* and *News from Yancey* among others. More Information
	Charles Baxley (historian) Baxley earned a B.A. and J.D. from the University of South Carolina. He is a practicing attorney in Lugoff, SC, and is the publisher and editor of the magazine, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. He has served as president of the Kershaw County Historical Society, a USAF reserve officer, a Municipal Judge, adjunct professor of law, and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kershaw County public school system. He has served as a planner, host, and tour guide at symposia on Banastre Tarleton, the Camden Campaign, Thomas Sumter, and the Nathanael Greene; for US Army staff rides; and for other tours of Southern Campaigns Revolutionary War sites.
	Bill Brooks (novelist, closet poet) Before turning pro in 1992 with his first novel, Brooks spent 16 years in the Health Care profession in the midwest. Prior to that he had the typical writer's background, having worked a plethora of jobs including shoe salesman, shipyard laborer, factory worker, and gas station attendant and journalist. While Brooks publishes mostly western novels, he is most proud of his non-western novels, *The Stone Garden, Pretty Boy, and Bonnie & Clyde: A Love Story. In the last several years he has begun to teach creative writing in various venues, including, last year a week at the famed Chautauqua Institute. More Information*
	John Buchanan (historian) Buchanan is an historian who was an archivist at Cornell University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During his nearly three decades on the staff of the museum he was, for twenty-two years, chief registrar in charge of worldwide art movements. He is the author of the highly regarded histories *The Road to Guilford Courthouse, The Road to Valley Forge and Jackson’s Way. He is at work on The Road to Charles Town*, a forthcoming account of the final phases of the Revolutionary War in the South. He lives with his wife in New York City.
	Kathryn Stripling Byer (poet, essayist) *Coming To Rest,* Byer's fifth book of poetry, is due out in April 2006. Also published are *Catching Light* (2002); *Black Shawl* (1998); *Wildwood Flower* (1992), which was the 1992 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and *The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest* (1986), which was published in the Associated Writing Programs award series. Among her other accolades are the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize, the Brockman-Campbell Award, and appointment as Poet Laureate of North Carolina. She lives in Cullowhee, located in the western mountains of the state. More Information
	Wayne Caldwell (novelist) Caldwell was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Appalachian State University, and Duke University. He began writing fiction in the late 1990s. He has published four short stories and a poem, and won two short story prizes. Caldwell lives near Asheville with his wife, Mary. *Cataloochee* is his first novel.
	Gary Carden (playwright, storyteller) Carden’s latest success, a one-man-show entitled *The Prince of Dark Corners* (performed by Milton Higgins of Burnsville) has been filmed by Heritage Films (filmmaker, Neal Hutcheson) and is scheduled for broadcast by PBS. Carden’s other dramatic works include *The Raindrop Waltz* and a series of dramatic monologues, including *Nance Dude, Birdell and Coy. Mason Jars in the Flood* received the Appalachian Writers Association Award for Book of the Year (200l) and his video, “Blow the Tannery Whistle” filmed by Tom Davenport has become a storytelling classic. He is a 2006 recipient of the Brown-Hudson Folklore Award from the NC Folklore Society. More Information Congrats to Gary who can't be with us because of his upcoming chochlear implant surgery!
	Bill Carson
	Jo Carson (playwright) Carson is an award-winning playwright who has written 20 performance projects with communities all over America, based on their own life stories, includingSwamp Gravy in Colquitt, Ga., and *Cross Tides* in Newport News, Va. She's also written short stories, books for children, essays and poems, and been a regular commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered." Carson, who hails from East Tennessee, has won numerous prestigious writing awards, including the Kesserling Award in 1989 for *Daytrips*, her hilarious and compassionate play about a family dealing with Alzheimer's Disease. She is a quintessential community artist, with a true ear for the way people talk and what they really mean to say.
	Judy Carson
	Richard Chess (poet, professor) Chess has published two books of poetry, *Tekiah* and *Chair in the Desert. His poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Telling and Remembering: a Century of American-Jewish Poetry, as well as many journals. His third collection, Third Temple*, will be published by the University of Tampa Press in February 2007. He directs the Center for Jewish Studies at UNCA and UNCA's Creative Writing Program. He has also taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and he has been writer-in-residence at the Brandeis Bardin Institute. He lives with his wife, son, and two step daughters in Asheville.
	Dr. Dennis Conrad (historian) Conrad works as a historian at the early history branch of the Naval Historical Center in Washington, DC. There he helps edit the *Naval Documents of the American Revolution* series. He has served as editor and project director of the monumental *Papers of General Nathanael Greene*. He directed the completion of volumes 7 through 12 of that series covering Greene’s campaigns in the South. He also served as contributing editor for volume 13. The monumental Greene papers are recognized for having set a new standard for annotated documentary collections. Gen. Greene was also the subject of Conrad’s doctoral dissertation at Duke University.
	Marshall De Bruhl De Bruhl was for many years an executive and editor with several major American publishing houses, most notably as Senior Vice President of the Scribner Book Companies and Executive Editor and Director of Anchor Press at Doubleday. He is the author of *Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston* (Random House, 1993); *Firestorm: Allied Air Power and the Destruction of Dresden* (Random House, 2006); and co-compiler of *The International Thesaurus of Quotations* (HarperCollins, 1996). He has also served as editor of, and contributor to, the *Dictionary of American History* and the *Dictionary of American Biography*. He was born and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. We regret that a scheduling difficulty has arisen and Mr. DeBruhl cannot come this year.
	Abigail DeWitt (novelist, writing instructor, short story writer) DeWitt has been teaching creative writing for twenty years. She has led workshops all over the U.S. and in Europe, and has taught at the Duke Writers' Workshop, Harvard University Summer School, Appalachian State University and UNC-Asheville. A firm believer that everyone has a story to tell, Abigail enjoys working with both beginning and advanced students. She has taught published authors as well as those who have never written, and has learned immeasurably from both. The recipient of several awards and fellowships, she is the author of the novel, *Lili*, as well as many short stories.
	M. Scott Douglass M. Scott Douglass is the publisher and editor of *Main Street Rag. He recently released his third book, Steel Womb Revisited. A chapbook, Dip Says Hi, is due out in May from Rank Stranger Press. More Information*
	John Ehle (novelist) Ehle was raised in Asheville and sets many of his books in North Carolina. He has written 11 works of fiction including *Move Over, Mountain, Winter People, The Journey of August King, Widow's Trial* and The Road (which recounts building the railroad across the Appalachian mountains). His most recent book of non-fiction is *Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation.* Ehle has received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Thomas Wolfe Prize and the Lillian Smith Award for Southern Fiction, and he is a five-time winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. Two of his books are being re-issued by Press53 in 2007.
	Elizabeth Ellison (artist/illustrator) Elizabeth Ellison is a watercolorist-papermaker who has a gallery-studio in Bryson City, NC. Ellison's pen-and-ink drawings and watercolor washes long have graced the work of her husband, writer/naturalist George Ellison, and others. Publishing venues include The Asheville Citizen-Times, Blue Ridge Outdoors, Outdoor Traveler, Friends of Wildlife, High Vistas, and Chinquapin. In September of 2006, The History Press (Charleston, SC) published *Blue Ridge Nature Journal: Reflections on the Appalachians in Essays and Art* by George and Elizabeth Ellison. More Information
	George Ellison (naturalist, columnist) Ellison, who resides in Bryson City, NC, wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. He writes a “Nature Journal” column for the Asheville Citizen-Times and a regional history “Back Then” column for *Smoky Mountain News. A selection of his "Back Then" columns published in 2005 by The History Press in Charleston, SC, as Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains* has gone into a third printing. More Information
	Francie Hall (storyteller, educator, children's author) Hall is the author of *Appalchain ABC's* and Scottish Highland Games. She has served four years as a radio control operator for jungle aircraft serving humanitarian needs in Suriname, South America; for nine years as a televisio writer/producer of a weekly educational program for the Kenyan government in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa; and for sixteen years as a teacher/administrator in Watauga County Schools. She is currently supervising student teachers for Appalchian State Universtiy and continuing to write. She has appeared on the Today Show and has spoken to a variety of curches, organizations, and schools. Francie is married, has three children and eight grandchildren.
	Elizabeth Baird Hardy (storyteller, educator) Originally from Berea, Kentucky, Hardy comes from a family of storytellers. She began telling stories in public at the age of fifteen, and has hardly stopped since then. Her tales include her "Tales from Two Creeks," named after Indian Creek, where her mother's people lived, and "Jellico Creek," where her father grew up. She also relates the adventures of the hapless circuit-riding Preacher Templeton. Her first book, *Milton, Spenser and the Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C.S. Lewis Novels,* was published in 2007. Hardy is an English Instructor at Mayland Community College and lives in Avery County with her husband and son, her two favorite characters.
	Michael Hardy (historian, photographer) Hardy is an award winning author and historian whose work focuses mostly on western North Carolina, a place where portions of his family first settled in the mid-1700s. Michael’s work includes histories of Confederate regiments and Civil War battles, and scholarly or pictorial histories of Watauga, Yancey, Caldwell, and Avery Counties. His most recent work is *Remembering Avery County: Old Tales from North Carolina’s Youngest County* (The History Press, 2007). Michael was nominated for North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2006. He lives with his wife Elizabeth, son Nathaniel, and daughter Isabella, near Grandfather Mountain. More Information
	Irene Honeycutt (poet) Irene Blair Honeycutt, award-winning poet and teacher, founded CPCC’s annual literary festival and directed it for 14 years. Upon her recent retirement, the college established in her honor the Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lectureship. She leads writing retreats/workshops around the region. She has published two poetry books—*It Comes As a Dark Surprise* (Sandstone Publishing 1992); *Waiting for the Trout to Speak* (Novello Festival Press 2002)—and one children’s book, *The Prince with the Golden Hair* (D-NP 2006). More Information
	Gloria Houston (educator, children's author) Currently living again in her native western North Carolina, Dr. Houston works as a writing consultant from her home and speaks as an author and writing consultant when her health permits. Houston's historical fiction has won more than 40 national and one international awards. Her innovative writing methods text and teacher handbook, *How Writing Works: Imposing Organizational Structure within the Writing Process, was released in 1994 by Allyn & Bacon/Longman. She is working on a language arts text and handbook, Teaching the Language Arts through the Arts, also for Allyn & Bacon/Longman. More Information*
	Anthony Grooms (poet, novelist, educator) Grooms is a writer and arts administrator who is well known for his work in organizing arts events and for his support and encouragement of other writers. Grooms graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1978 with a B.A. in theatre and speech. Later he studied at George Mason University, where he developed a professional interest in creative writing, and graduated in 1984 with a master of fine arts in English. Grooms is the author of a collection of poetry, *Ice Poems* (1988), a collection of stories, *Trouble No More* (1995), and a novel, *Bombingham* (2001). Due to a conflit in schedules, Tony will not be able to attend in 2007--but 2008 perhaps.
	Dot Jackson (reporter, novelist) Jackson turned an abiding curiosity into a lifelong career in newspapers, going from murder trials to snake-handling prayer meetings to some of the hardest-fought environmental battles of our times. As an investigative reporter for the Charlotte Observer, she wrote about, and often brought to justice, the industrial polluters whose stories garnered Jackson several Pulitzer Prize nominations and a National Conservation Writer of the Year award. She also has collaborated on several acclaimed books of non-fiction. *Refuge* is Dot Jackson’s first book-length work of fiction.
	Hunter James (investigative reporter, editorialist, novelist) James has spent more than thirty five years as an editorialist and correspondent for such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and Baltimore Sun, winning numerous press association awards for his work, as well as a share of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. His articles and stories have appeared in Newsweek, National Geographic (book division), Historic Preservation, Southern Magazine, The Southern Review. He has published eight books (including *All the Forgotten Places* and *Last Days of the Big Grassy Fork) and a novel. Alas, Hunter James will not be able to attend the 2007 festival for health reasons. More Information*
	Steve Kirk (editor, non-fictionalist) Kirk has been the editor at John F. Blair, Publisher, since 1988. He is the author of *Scribblers: Stalking the Authors of the Appalachia, an IPPY Award finalist, and First In Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina, one of the sources used in the national PBS documentary commemorating the first-flight centennial. The second story he ever wrote was selected for reprinting in the Best American Short Stories* series. He lives near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. More Information
	Vicki Lane (novelist) Vicki Lane, author of *Signs in the Blood* (Dell 2005), *Arts Blood* (Dell 2006), and *Old Wounds* (coming in 2007) lives with her husband, sons, and daughter-in-law on a mountain farm in North Carolina. She is at work on the fourth Elizabeth Goodweather novel, which will be published by Bantam-Dell in 2008. More Information
	Myra MacPherson (journalist, biographer) Her most recent book "*All Governments Lie!":The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone* was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006. (It was recently announced as a finalist in the PEN USA Literary Awards, a top ten biography for 2006-2007 Book List and a Best Book of 2006 by The Boston Globe and The Rocky Mountain News.) MacPherson is the author of three previous books, including the Vietnam War classic *Long Time Passing. She was a highly regarded journalist at the Washington Post* for many years, and has also written for the New York Times and numerous magazines, including Vanity Fair. She lives in Palm Desert, California, and Washington, D.C. Myra MacPherson is experiencing house woes and must supervise sustantial repairs due to water damage. She regrets she has to miss the festival.
	Dr. Greg Massey (professor, historian) Massey earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina in 1992. He is the author of *John Laurens and the American Revolution* (2000) for which received the American Revolution Round Table of New York’s Book Award in 2001. Dr. Massey is Professor of History a Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, Tennessee.
	Karen Hokanson Miller (educator, children's novelist) Protesting “There’s nothing to read,” Karen Miller’s 6th grade students convinced her to write a book just for them. "Everyone likes monsters," they told her. But there weren’t any books about real monsters. So Miller began a six year study of undiscovered beasts. Her first book, *Monsters, Shapeshifters and Water Beasts, will be published by Henry Holt in spring 2007. A teacher, literature consultant, bookseller and mother of four, Karen Miller lives in Burnsville, North Carolina with her husband, Bob and dog Lucy. She has four adult children, aged 22-31 years old. More Information*
	Sheryl Monks (short fiction writer, editor) Monks holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and a BA in English from Salem College. In 2005, she was awarded a Northwest North Carolina Regional Artist Project Grant a. Her stories have appeared in RE:AL, Backwards City Review, and Southern Gothic online. As an intern at John F. Blair, Publisher in Winston-Salem, she helped edit and write *Travel North Carolina: Going Native in the Old North State, 2nd ed. and later wrote a book of folklore for Blair, Ghostly Lighthouses from Maine to Florida. Monks is a co-owner of Press 53 and teaches creative writing at Salem College and Intro. to Literature at Surry Community College. More Information*
	Robert Morgan (novelist, poet) Morgan is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel *Gap Creek, an Oprah Book Club selection in 2000 and winner of the Southern Book Award for fiction. His earlier novel The Truest Pleasure* was a finalist for the same award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable. Morgan has published five books of fiction, including *Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution.. He has published nine volumes of poetry and has published poems in many magazines. Additional awards and honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the James G. Hanes Poetry Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. More Information*
	Rob Neufeld Rob Neufeld is the book critic and local history feature writer for the Asheville Citizen-Times. He is the editor *The Making of a Writer: The Journals of Gail Godwin* (Random House 2006); and the author of *A Popular History of Western North Carolina* (History Press 2007). He is also the director of Together We Read, western North Carolina’s 21-county reading, discussion, and heritage program, now in its sixth year. He is an experienced lecturer, performer, and discussion moderator. He has been studying and writing about local history all his adult life. More Information
	Michael Parker (novelist) Parker is the author of five works of fiction including the novels *Hello Down There* and *If You Want Me To Stay. His stories have appeared in the Oxford American, Five Points, Shenandoah* and many other magazines and in the Pushcart, New Stories from the South and O. Henry Award anthologies. A new collection of stories, *Don’t Make Me Stop Now*, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in 2007. For his work he has received fellowships in fiction from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 2006 Mary Frances Hobson Award in Arts and Letters. He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro.
	Charles F. Price (historical novelist) Price has published four novels to date: *Hiwassee: A Novel of the Civil War, Freedom's Altar, (1999 Sir Walter Raleigh Award), The Cock's Spur* (Independent Publisher's 2001 Book Award as one of the Ten Outstanding Books of the Year and Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award) and Where the Water-Dogs Laughed. One of the chief characters in his new Revolutionary War novel *Nor the Battle to the Strong* is a maternal ancestor who served in the Continental Army. Nor the Battle to the Strong is forthcoming in 2007 from Frederic C. Beil Publisher of Savannah, GA. He currently lives in Yancey County. More Information
	Glenis Redmond Redmond is an award-winning performance poet, praise poet, educator and writer from Asheville, North Carolina. For the past thirteen years, she has traveled both domestically and abroad carrying the message of poetry to the masses. She has been published in Meridians, Hearthstone, Black Arts Quarterly, Obsidian II, Emrys Journal and Appalachian Herigate Journal among others. She has received numerous awards, including the Cary McCray Literary Award, and has been the two time recipient of both the Vermont Studio Center for the Arts Fellowship and the Atlantic Center for the Arts Fellowship. In 2005 she won the North Carolina Literary Fellowship. Her two full length books of poetry are Backbone(2000) and Under the Sun (2005). More Information
	Pat Riviere-Seel (poet) A native of Shelby, NC, Riviere-Seel lived, wrote, and ran in Yancey County from 1992-1997 when she married Ed Seel and moved to Germany. She has lived in Asheville since 1999. Her poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies including Asheville Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, Pinesong Anthology of Award Winning Poems, and Crucible, among others. Current work appears in Kakalak 2007: An Anthology of Carolina Poets and Passager. Her first collection of poetry, *No Turning Back Now* was a finalist in Finishing Line Press’s New Women’s Voices chapbook contest (2004) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA.
	Dr. Preston Russell (painter, writer, historian) A native Tennesseean, he is a graduate of Tulane University and Vanderbilt Medical School. Retired from medicine, Dr. Russell now paints in his Savannah studio and writes extensively about historical themes. He was chief editor of *Why America is Free,* a new fifth-to-eighth-grade textbook on the contribution made by the Revolutionary War generation to the founding of the United States. He co-authored, with Barbara Hines, *Savannah: A History of Her People Since 1733* and also wrote *The History of the Georgia Society of Colonial Wars; The Low Country: From Savannah to Charleston; and a penetrating study Lights of Madness: In Search of Joan of Arc. More Information*
	Timothy Silver (professor, environmental scholar, historian) Silver is professor of history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. His book *Mount Mitchell & the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America* (2003) earned him the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, given by the Southern Environmental Law Center in the book category (2004) and and the Ragan Old North State Award of the North Carlonina Literary and Historical Association for the year's best work of non-fiction (2003) among other awards. His previous publications include *A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800. More Information*
	Betty Smith (ballad singer, educator) Smith has performed, taught and shared the traditional music of the South for over thirty years in classrooms, concert halls, workshops, and festivals. She has been honored by the Appalachian Writers Association for her contributions to Appalachian Literature, by the North Carolina Folklore Society for her contributions to the study and appreciation of folklife with the Brown-Hudson Award, and the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Award for “significant contributions to Appalachian music”. Her book, *Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers,* was awarded the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award by the North Carolina Society of Historians. More Information
	Dr. Christine Swager Swager is a retired professor of education, storyteller and author of three award winning youth books on the Southern Campaign: *Black Crows and White Cockades, If Ever Your Country Needs You, and Come to the Cow Pens!* Her latest book, aimed at general readers, *The Valiant Died* is the first modern study that covers in detail the Eutaws Campaign of Gen. Nathanael Greene. Born in Canada, she is a descendent of both an American who served with the British Army and settled in Canada after the war, and Continental soldiers who fought in Connecticut and Maine. She is a highly sought speaker, commentator and newspaper columnist.
	Peter Turchi (novelist, non-fictionalist, educator) Turchi is the author of a novel, a collection of stories, and two books of nonfiction, including, most recently, *Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. He has also co-edited two anthologies, The Story Behind the Story* and *Bringing the Devil to His Knees, and an exhibition catalog for the artist Charles Ritchie. The recipient of North Carolina’s Sir Walter Raleigh Award and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, he has taught in and directed the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1993. More Information*
	Kevin Watson Watson is co-owner and founding editor of Press 53. His short stories have appeared in ART Magazine, Amarillo Bay, The Rose & Thorn Literary E-zine, and others. His short story "Sunny Side Up" won the 2002 OutRider Press/TallGrass Writers' Guild short fiction contest and appeared in the 2002 anthology *TAKE TWO—THEY'RE SMALL. Prior to moving to Winston-Salem, NC, in 1997, Kevin spent ten years in Nashville, TN, as a songwriter, writing primarily for Crosswinds Music and Maypop Music, the publishing house for the band Alabama. He has shared the stage with Garth Brooks, Bill Monroe, Holly Dunn, Mary Chapin Carpenter and others. More Information*
	Seabrook Wilkinson (poet, historian, educator, literary critic) Wilkinson’s connections with Charleston and the Carolina Lowcountry go back to 1670. Most of his education was far afield, at Harvard (A.B., History of Art) and then Oxford (B.A., M.A., Theology). He remained in Britain to work in another ancestral city, Edinburgh, as Head of English at Fettes College. As Charlestonians tend to do, he came home to roost, and while teaching at local colleges began to ascend the Ph.D. salmon-leap, whose top rung he is now approaching. His published criticism ranges from Marlowe to Frost. After decades of scrutinizing the poems of others, he began to write his own again; *A Local Habitation* is in press.
	Isabel Zuber (poet, novelist) Zuber was born and grew up in Boone, NC. She lives in Winston-Salem, was a librarian at Wake Forest University for many years, and is now writing full time. Some of her prizes include the publication prize in the North Carolina Writers Network poetry chapbook contest, Lee Smith Award for Fiction from the Appalachian Writers Association, University of Tennessee Press prize for short story, Forsyth County Arts Council grant, and she was selected as one of the readers in the Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series. Her poetry collections are *Oriflamb, from the North Carolina Writers Network, and Winter’s Exile, from Scots Plaid Press. Her novel, Salt,* was selected in 2003 for Virginia Commonwealth University’s First Novel. More Information