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L
ISA
K
OGER

Excerpt from “Extended Learning,”
Farlanburg Stories
, Norton, 1990, reprinted with permission from the author.

C
ATHERINE
L
ANDIS

“On My Way to the Rest of My Life,” Chapter 1, from
Some Days There's Pie
© 2002, reprinted by permission of St. Martin's Press, LLC., and the author.

L
ILY
M
AY
L
EDFORD

Excerpt from
Coon Creek Girl
, Berea College Appalachian Center, 1980, reprinted with permission from Cari Norris.

G
EORGE
E
LLA
L
YON

Excerpt from
With a Hammer for My Heart
, DK Publishing, 1997; and “where I'm from,” “Rings,” “Salvation,” and “Growing Light” from
where i'm from: where poems come from
, Absey & Co., 1999, reprinted with permission from the author.

L
INDA
P
ARSONS
M
ARION

“Good Luck Charm,” “Welcome to the Other Side,” “To My Daughter Going Off to College,” and “Mulberries” from
Home Fires
, Sow's Ear Press, 1997, reprinted with permission from Sow's Ear Press and the author.

C
ATHERINE
M
ARSHALL

Excerpt from
Christy
© 1967 by Catherine Marshall LeSourd, © 1995, 2001 by Marshall-LeSourd L.L.C., published by Chosen Books, a division of Baker Book House Company. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

B
ELINDA
A
NN
M
ASON

The Gifts of the Spirit
from
Appalachian Heritage
, Vol. 16, nos. 2 & 3 (spring/summer 1988), reprinted with permission from
Appalachian Heritage
, Ron Short (Roadside Theater), and Stephen Carden.

K
ATHY
L. M
AY

“Ascension,” “Saved,” and “Rain” from
Door to the River
, The Panhandler Poetry Chapbook Number 5, (spring 1992), reprinted with permission from the author.

T
RUDA
W
ILLIAMS
M
C
C
OY

Excerpt from
The McCoys: Their Story as Told to the Author by Eye Witnesses and Descendents
, Preservation Council Press of the Preservation Council of Pike County, Inc., 1976, reprinted with permission from Paul R. McCoy.

S
HARYN
M
C
C
RUMB

Excerpt from
The Songcatcher
© 2001, Dutton, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., used by permission of the author.

J
EANNE
M
C
D
ONALD

Excerpt from “Up the Hill Toward Home”
Breathing the Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology
, Celtic Cat Publishing and the Knoxville Writers' Guild, 2001, reprinted with permission from Celtic Cat Publishing, the Knoxville Writers' Guild and the author.

K
AREN
S
ALYER
M
C
E
LMURRAY

Excerpt from
Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey
, Hill Street Press, 2002, reprinted with permission from Hill Street Press and the author.

L
LEWELLYN
M
C
K
ERNAN

“Many Waters” and “For My Grandmother Who Knows How” from
Many Waters: Poems from West Virginia
, Mellen Poetry Press, 1993; and “Music,” “Mother Milking,” and “The Hollow” from
Short and Simple Annals
, Perfect Printing, 1983, reprinted with permission from the author.

I
RENE
M
C
K
INNEY

“Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report,” “Deep Mining,” “Sunday Morning, 1950,” “The Only Portrait of Emily Dickenson,” and “Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia” from
Six O'Clock Mine Report
, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989, reprinted with permission from the author.

L
OUISE
M
C
N
EILL

“The Other Woman,”
Appalachian Heritage
(fall 1985), reprinted with permission from
Appalachian Heritage;
“Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child),” “Hill Daughter,” and “Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River”
Hill Daughter: New & Selected Poems
© 1991, by Louise McNeill, published by University of Pittsburgh Press; and excerpt from “A Patch of Earth” from
The Milkweed Ladies
© 1988, by University of Pittsburgh Press, reprinted by permission of the Universtiy of Pittsburgh Press.

J
ANE
M
ERCHANT

“Lanterns and Lamps,” copyright renewal © 1980 Elizabeth Merchant, “First Plowing in the Hills,” copyright renewal © 1979 Elizabeth Merchant, reprinted from
The Greatest of These
by permission of Abingdon Press.

H
EATHER
R
OSS
M
ILLER

Excerpt from
The Edge of the Woods
, Atheneum, 1964; “Breadstuff” from
Hard Evidence
, University of Missouri Press, 1990; and “Seventh Grades” from
Friends and Assassins
, University of Missouri Press, 1993, reprinted with permission from the author.

J
ANICE
T
OWNLEY
M
OORE

“All Those Nights” from
Southern Humanities Review
, Vol. 14, no. 2 (spring 1982); “The Way Back” from
Negative Capability
, Vol. 4, no. 4 (fall 1984); and “Under the Earth” from
Southern Humanities Review
, Vol. 19, no. 2 (spring 1985), reprinted with permission from the author.

M
ARI
J
O
M
OORE

“Solidarity in the Night,” “Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi,” and “Story is a Woman” from
Spirit Voices of Bones: Poetry
, rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, 1997; and “Rumors” from
red woman with backward eyes
, rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, 2001, reprinted with permission from the author.

E
LAINE
F
OWLER
P
ALENCIA

“Briers” from
Brier Country: Stories from Blue Valley
, University of Missouri Press, 2000, reprinted with permission from the author.

J
AYNE
A
NNE
P
HILLIPS

Excerpt from
Motherkind
, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000; and “The House At Night” from
Machine Dreams
, Washington Square Press, 1984, reprinted with permission from the author.

L
YNN
P
OWELL

“Nativity,” “Echocardiogram,” and “The Calling” from
Old and New Testaments
© 1995, reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press and the author.

B
ARBARA
P
RESNELL

“In the Kitchen We String Beans,” “Clarissa and the Second Coming,” “When You Lose a Child,” and “Snake Dreams” from
Snake Dreams
, Nightshade Press, 1994, reprinted with permission from the author.

R
ITA
S
IMS
Q
UILLEN

“July 18, 1966,” “Woman Writer,” and “I Used To Be a Teacup” from
Counting the Sums
, Sow's Ear Press, 1995; “Discovered” from
October Dusk
, Seven Buffaloes Press, 1987; and “How Do You Remember Him?” from
Appalachian Journal
(summer 1997), reprinted with permission from Sow's Ear Press, Seven Buffaloes Press and the author.

J
EAN
R
ITCHIE

Excerpt from
Singing Family of the Cumberlands
, University Press of Kentucky, 1955, reprinted with permission from the author.

C
YNTHIA
R
YLANT

Excerpt from
Missing May
, published by Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., copyright © 1992 by Cynthia Rylant. Reprinted with permission.

B
ETTIE
S
ELLERS

“Liza's Monday,” “Pink,” and “Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair,” from
Liza's Monday and Other Poems
, Appalachian Consortium Press, 1986; and “Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk,” “All On A Summer's Afternoon,” and “Legacy For Rachel” from
Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk
, Green River Press, 1981, reprinted with permission from the author.

M
ARY
L
EE
S
ETTLE

Excerpt from
Addie
, University of South Carolina Press, 1998, reprinted with permission from the University of South Carolina Press. Excerpt from
The Killing Ground
, reprinted by permission of Carlisle & Company, LLC on behalf of the author.

A
NNE
S
HELBY

“Why I Write” (fall 1997), “Fat Sestina,” and “Spellcheck” (fall 1998) from
Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel
, reprinted with permission from the author.

M
URIEL
E
ARLEY
S
HEPPARD

Excerpt from
Cabins in the Laurel
© 1935 and 1991 by the University of North Carolina Press, used by permission of the publisher.

B
ETSY
S
HOLL

“Appalachian Winter” from
Appalachian Winter
, reprinted with permission from the author.

E
LLEN
H
ARVEY
S
HOWELL

“What is a Mountain?” “The Trouble with Town,” and “Going to the River” from
Our Mountain
, Bradbury Press, 1991, reprinted with permission from the author.

B
ENNIE
L
EE
S
INCLAIR

“Homecoming” from
The Arrowhead Scholar
, Wildernesse Books, 1978; “Kathy” from
Little Chicago Suite
, Wildernesse Books, 1978; and “My Father. His Rabbits” and “Backwoods Haiku” from
Lord of Springs
, Rowan Mountain Press, 1990, reprinted with permission from the Estate of the author.

V
ERNA
M
AE
S
LONE

Excerpt from
What My Heart Wants to Tell
, New Republic Books, 1979, reprinted with permission from the author.

B
ARBARA
S
MITH

“Bad News” from
Weeping With Those Who Weep: Poems of Bereavement
, “And This Is The Way To Be Poor” from
Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel: Contemporary Appalachian Writing
, and “The Language of Poetry” from
New River Free Press
, reprinted with permission from the author.

E
FFIE
W
ALLER
S
MITH

“Memories of Home” from
The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith
, Oxford University Press, 1991.

L
EE
S
MITH

Excerpt from
Saving Grace
© 1995 by Lee Smith, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., used with permission of the author.

J
ANE
S
TUART

“Cycles” from
Transparencies: Remembrances of My Father, Jesse Stuart
, Archer Editions Press, 1985; “Where Stuarts Lie” and “Roots” from
Eyes of the Mole
, Stanton & Lee, 1967; and “Composition” from
White Barn
, Whipoorwill Press, 1973, reprinted with permission from the author.

A
DRIANA
T
RIGIANI

Excerpt from
Big Stone Gap
© 2000 by The Glory of Everything Company, used by permission of Random House, Inc., and the author.

D
ANA
W
ILDSMITH

“Force,” from
Alchemy: Poems
, Sow's Ear Press, 1995; and “New Poor,” “Economy,” “Our Bodies Remember,” and “A Dry Spring” from
Our Bodies Remember: Poems
, Sow's Ear Press, 1999, reprinted with permission from Sow's Ear Press and the author.

S
YLVIA
W
ILKINSON

Excerpt from
Shadow of the Mountain: A Novel
, Houghton Mifflin, 1977, reprinted with permission from the author.

M
EREDITH
S
UE
W
ILLIS

“My Boy Elroy” from
In the Mountains of America
© 1994 by Meredith Sue Willis, published by Mercury House, San Francisco, CA, and reprinted with permission of the author.

L
EIGH
A
LLISON
W
ILSON

“The Raising” from
From the Bottom Up
, University of Georgia Press, 1983, reprinted with permission from the author.

M
ARY
E
LIZABETH
W
ITHERSPOON

Excerpt from
The Morning Cool
, MacMillan, 1972, reprinted with permission from the author.