C.F Shushok is a queer and nonbinary poet and writer from Southwest Virginia. Their work explores mountain life, queer placehood, and what it means to maintain and reimagine a Southern...

Winner of the first Artadia Award in Atlanta in 2009, Jerry Siegel was born and raised in Selma, AL, and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. His first book, Facing South: Portraits...

Ann Cary Simpson, photographer, served for thirty years at national and North Carolina environmental organizations (NC Nature Conservancy, Ducks Unlimited’s Wetlands America Trust, NC...

Bland Simpson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Vollis Simpson (January 17, 1919–May 31, 2013) was an uncommon sculptor who created massive windmills and whirligigs that he erected on family land near the rural community of Lucama,...

Fadi Fayad Skeiker is an associate professor of theater arts at The University of Jordan, and currently a visiting researcher at Free University of Berlin with support of Erasmus grant.

Jason Skipper is the author of the novel Hustle, a finalist for the PEN USA Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in the Rumpus and Hotel Amerika, with awards and recognition from...

Bill Smith is the author of two cookbooks and many articles and essays in various magazines and journals. In 2019, he retired after twenty-five years as head chef at Crook’s Corner...

Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi.

Lee Smith is the author of twelve novels and four short story collections, the latest of which is Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger.

Farming and winemaking run in Lyndon’s blood. He founded a natural wine distribution company, Sour Grapes, in 2009 but left the wine business to start a small apple orchard and blueberry...

Michael Farris Smith is the author of Desperation Road (forthcoming, 2017), Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers.

Shari Smith has been published in Thicket Magazine, Wildlife in North Carolina, Western North Carolina Magazine, O. Henry Magazine, Pinestraw Magazine, and Abilene Living, and has written...

Stephanie Clare Smith grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a social worker and mediator who works with at-risk families in the judicial system.

Stephanie Soileau is a lecturer at Stanford University, where she was also a Truman Capote Fellow in the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program. Her short stories have appeared in Glimmer...

Ed Southern is the executive director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, one of the largest writers’ organizations of its kind in the country.

Mike Spara is an actor, writer and music-maker based in Brooklyn, New York. Before that was New Orleans, Peru, China, DC, Maryland, Brussels, Kansas and, yes, upstate New York.

Elizabeth Spencer is the author of nine novels and seven short story collections. She is best known for two novels, the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Voice at the Back Door and the...

A.E. Stallings studied Classics in Athens, Georgia, and has lived in Athens, Greece, since 1999. She has published three collections, most recently Olives. Her verse translation of...

Nomi Stone is the author of the poetry collection Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008), an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Warren Wilson College and a PhD Candidate in Cultural...

David Straughan is a writer, editor, and cat enthusiast from Durham, North Carolina.

Born in Indiana during the 1960s civil rights era, Gina Streaty credits her small-town upbringing and large, “atypical” family with her deep-rooted passion for writing.

Valerie Suter is from New York originally and studied visual art at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London, UK.

Sharon Swanson is an award winning essayist and documentary film producer. Her essay “Keeping Secrets” was included in the anthology, Mothers and Strangers, published by UNC Press in...

Francesca Talenti is a director and designer who has exhibited her work from The Folger and The Guthrie, to Sundance and PBS National, by way of Mumbai, Göteborg, Casablanca and many...

Robert Tannen is an Economic Development specialist, Urban Design and Planning Consultant, whose 50 year career has resulted in more than $2 billion of public and private projects in the...

C. Michelle Taylor started her writing career as a journalist covering politics and government in eastern North Carolina. She later wrote on business and economic policy for state agencies...

M.C. Taylor is a musician and folklorist. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. His most recent release—under the moniker Hiss Golden Messenger—is titled Poor Moon. Ten Things I...

Melanie Benson Taylor is an associate professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, working at the intersections of Native and U.S. Southern literature and culture.

Scott Taylor is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a photographer for the Chapel Hill News and the Duke University Marine Laboratory before opening Scott...