Born in Oklahoma in 1945, Dougherty was raised in North Carolina. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina in 1967 and an M.A. in Hospital and Health Administration...

Robin Dreyer is the communications manager and staff photographer at Penland School of Crafts. His writing and photographs have appeared in American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, The Mountain...

Clancy DuBos is the political editor/columnist for Gambit weekly newspaper in New Orleans. He also is the on-air political commentator for WWL-TV (CBS) in New Orleans, and a licensed...

John P. Dunn entered the world in Wiesbaden, then West Germany. He's traveled to Europe, Africa and Central Asia, but lived longest in his favorite town - Valdosta, GA. Currently a...

Ginger Eager’s essays, reviews, and short fiction have been published in Necessary Fiction, West Branch, Bellevue Literary Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere.

Tom Earnhardt is a graduate of Davidson College and UNC School of Law. He is an attorney with experience in government as an Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Secretary of NC...

Eby embraces big themes, and her work is pervaded by spirituality and sublimity, as are the paintings of Anselm Kiefer and Cy Twombly, two artists she much admires. Metaphysically inclined,...

Clyde Edgerton is the author of ten novels, a memoir, short stories, and essays. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and five of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. He is a...

Lisa Egorova is a Research Fellow at the archive of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. She also works towards her Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Lomonosov Moscow State...

Ann Ehringhaus moved to Ocracoke Island in 1971 to teach in the one room schoolhouse. She left to study photography and returned to work on her first  book, Ocracoke Portrait, 1988 John F....

Tina Ehsanipour is an Iranian-born, California-raised writer and high school English teacher. After leaving Iran, she and her family lived for a few months in Savannah, Georgia before...

Mark Elberfeld grew up in Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia, and earned a B.A. in English and Art History at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. 

Candy Sue Ellison lives near the Mississippi River in New Orleans and enjoys the sounds of her neighborhood: raven caws, riverboat calliopes, raucous church bells, and the occasional brass...

Nada El Sawy is an Egyptian-American freelance journalist based in Cairo since 2020. She was Cairo correspondent for Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National from January 2021 to May 2023.

Trevor Erlacher hails from the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, but spent half of his formative years in the Mid- and Northwest.

Carl Ernst is a scholar who writes on critical issues of Islamic studies (West and South Asia), premodern and contemporary Sufism, and Indo-Muslim culture.

Rhys Ernst grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is a filmmaker and artist. His work investigates transgender identity in the context of larger narratives, and seeks to develop and...

Carlos Estévez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1969. He lives and works in Miami, FL, USA, having graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba, in 1992.

Sue Etheridge has had a career working in prisons as an art therapist for twenty-five years. She has a deep belief that creativity and beauty are basic human needs. As art therapist, she...

Georgann Eubanks is a writer, teacher, and communications consultant with more than 30 years of experience in the nonprofit sector.

W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of Ever is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi’s Dark Past and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family...

Tami’s marketing career as a communications and events consultant and writer has spanned the nonprofit, entertainment, arts, outdoor, and travel industries with one common theme:...

Kate Farrell grew up in Southern Pines, North Carolina. After the death of her first husband, she moved with her two small children to New York to be a poet and study literature at Columbia...

Andrew Farrier is a tour guide and theater artist in New Orleans, Louisiana who occasionally takes a break from oral storytelling to write something down.

Brian K. Fennessy is a Ph.D. Candidate in United States history at UNC-Chapel Hill. A native of Cranston, Rhode Island and an alumnus of Sewanee: The University of the South, Brian has both...

Born in New York but raised in Alabama, Kelly Kathleen Ferguson grew up confused as to who won the Civil War.

Marcie Cohen Ferris is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she directs the Southern Studies concentration....

William R. Ferris, a widely recognized leader in Southern studies, African American music, and folklore, is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History at the University of North...

Michele Frederick is Associate Curator of European Art and Provenance Research at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Druscilla French, Ph.D. is a writer, a cultural mythologist, and an advocate for women. She has written many articles in the fields of conflict resolution, Depth Psychology, and post-modern...