Jay Hakes left teaching political science at the University of New Orleans in 1977 to join the administration of Jimmy Carter.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was one of the founders of the modern field of women’s history and helped to spark a thriving...

A native of Philadelphia, Barbara Clementine Harris graduated from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism.

Lynden Harris is the founder of Hidden Voices, a radically inclusive, participatory, and co-creative collective committed to creating a just, compassionate, and sustainable world.

In the past few years, Tim Hatcher has lived in the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina coast with several beach cats. He has traveled the world as a quality inspector and, later in...

Anna Hayes was born in North Carolina but lived in San Francisco, Mexico, Guatemala, Africa, and France, among other places, before heading for home and settling in Chapel Hill.

Christina Myers Hepburn, is creator and cohost of the popular podcast, T&A Talk Sex, for the last three years, gabbing about taboo topics around sexuality, relationships, and intimacy in an...

Earl J. Hess grew up on a farm in Missouri and developed a deep interest in Civil War history. He got his Ph.D. in History and American Studies at Purdue University and most of his teaching...

Elijah Heyward III is a native of Beaufort, South Carolina, and a Hampton University graduate. He is a founder of the Bigger’s Circle, an initiative focused on supporting the Hampton...

James Tate Hill is the author of the memoir Blind Man’s Bluff (W. W. Norton), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021.

Kacey M. Hill lives in New Orleans, Louisiana but will always be from Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Leslie Hill is a photographer and currently a real estate agent in the gorgeous Hudson Valley. She grew up in Rhinebeck, NY which is now super fancy, she did not get out in time and is now...

Winston Ho 何嶸 is a graduate student in the Department of history at the University of New Orleans (UNO) 紐奧良大學歷史系, specializing in early twentieth-century China and...

Roy Hoffman, a novelist and journalist, is author of three novels: Come Landfall, a novel of hurricanes and war, involving three women and the men they love, impacted by World War II,...

Jane Holding grew up in Smithfield, a small town in Eastern North Carolina. She left for school in the North in 1969, when the world felt on fire and when it still somehow seemed possible...

Graham Hoppe writes about culture and history with a focus on food, music, and tourism. He is a recent graduate of the folklore program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Silas House is the author of Southernmost and five other novels, one book of creative nonfiction, and three plays.

David Houston is a curator and art historian and was the Director of Curatorial at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Since February of 2013, he is the...

Charlie Howell was born and raised in the south, growing up amongst the hills of suburban Nashville. He’s lived in 7 states and one district, bouncing from one coast to the other and back...

Hewei Hu is a fourth-year undergraduate student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. They were born and grew up in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui province in China.

Clementine Hunter (1887-1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. She produced between five and ten thousand paintings, ranging from her...

Cheryl Isaac is an immigrant entrepreneur, raised in Liberia, West Africa, until she was a teenager—a product of the first Liberian civil war. She is a columnist for Forbes, an MFA...

D. Amari Jackson is a creator, author, TV/web/film producer, and award-winning journalist. He is Senior Writer for Black Art In America, the leading platform for African American art in the...

Jason Jefferies is the host of the Bookin' podcast, which features a new author interview every week. He is also the co-host of The Listmas Podcast with Reggie Worth.

Andrew Jenks received his PhD in Russian history from Stanford University in 2002. He is a Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach.

Erendira Jimenez is currently a student at Yale Divinity School where she is studying for her Masters of Divinity, and is also a Postulant for the Holy Orders of the Priesthood in the...

Sharon Lynne Joffe was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but has lived in the United States since 1985. She has a Master of Science degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania...

Danny Johnson is a writer of fiction that tends to follow in the tradition of Southern authors whose characters often represent the most disenfranchised in society, examining their...

Dionne and Delores Jones are sisters who were born and raised in the Low-Country. Even though they spent the majority of their lifetime in South Carolina, they currently reside outside of...

Paul Jones has published poetry in many journals including Poetry, Georgia Review, Southern Review, North Carolina Literary Review as well as in cookbooks, in travel anthologies, in a...