Jeremy B. Jones is the author of the memoir Cipher as well as Bearwallow, which was named the 2014 Appalachian Book of the Year in nonfiction and awarded gold in memoir in the 2015...

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...

Timothy Juhl lives on the banks of the Maquoketa River in Iowa with his dog, Joey, a bounding lunk of canine love. Tim slings breakfast for dusty farmers and full-hipped women in a small...

Born in Macon, Georgia, to Chinese immigrant parents who operated a laundry during the years before the civil rights era, I didn’t fully know what being Chinese meant as we were the only...

Subhash Kak is Regents Professor Emeritus at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. His work has been showcased in the Discovery and History channels, PBS, Dutch Public TV, and in various...

Chris Kaminstein is a writer, director, actor, and co-Artistic Director of Goat in the Road Productions (GRP), an award-winning ensemble theater company based in New Orleans.

Arun Kapil teaches political science and history at the Catholic University of Paris and CIEE-Paris.

Kathryn Keller was born in 1952 in El Dorado Arkansas to Polly Murphy and Christoph Keller. She grew up one of six children, the daughter of an Episcopal priest in Harrison Arkansas,...

Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, Kathleen B. Kent is a photographer in Fort Polk, Louisiana, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She has degrees in English from...

Dr. Akram Khater is Alumni Distinguished University Professor (CHASS), Professor of History at North Carolina State University, Director of Middle East Studies Program, and Director of the...

Nicole King was born and raised in Conway, South Carolina. She is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and the director of the Orser Center for the Study of Place,...

Amelia Kirby is an Appalachian activist, cultural worker and small business owner.

Allison Klein grew up in New York City and attended Middlebury College in Vermont, from which she graduated with a joint major in Environmental Studies and Geology.

Sheila Kohler is the author of ten novels, three volumes of short fiction, a memoir, and many essays.

Frank Konhaus is the Director of Cassilhaus, a home-based multidisciplinary arts center between Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. He directs their exhibition and Artist-in-Residence programs and...

Paul Kottman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research, and Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, in New York City.

Sharon Kurtzman is Jersey girl who lives in the South with her husband, two kids, and two dogs. A long time ago, she worked in television marketing and was once the official escort to...

Katheryn Krotzer Laborde is a New Orleans writer who grew up thinking she was the product of a mixed marriage, all because her mother was a Virginian and her father was from Philly.

Tara Laskowski is a writer and editor in Virginia. She is the author of the short story collection Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and the editor of SmokeLong Quarterly.

Benjamin N. Lawrance is the Hon. Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Chair in International Studies and Professor of History and Anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Lee Lawrence grew up on a remote farm in the beautiful Susquehanna Valley, where folk are close to the earth and down to earth. After attending university, he became a CPA with an...

Erin Lee is a Wolf Clan member of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York. She studied at Bard College, Lacoste School of the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center.

Barbara Lekatsas is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, where she was curator for many years of The Weingrow Collection of Avant-Garde Art and Literature, and...

I grew up in North Wales in a Welsh-speaking household that included a poet/artist grandfather who was from Snowdonia, North Wales’s mountainous region. It was the place where artists...

Anna Marie Linvill is an author from Hillsborough, North Carolina. A dilettante who loves languages, opera, gardening, beekeeping, and poultry, she is a former U.S. Air Force Arabic...

Taylor Livingston is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Jack Lloyd lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and three girls (that's correct, dear reader—four against one). He practices law in Raleigh, North Carolina, specializing in...

Zelda Lockhart is Director of LaVenson Press Studios. She is the author of the award-winning novels Fifth Born and Cold Running Creek and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle. Lockhart held...

Tracie Locklear,PhD (Lumbee/Coharie), is a pharmacognosist and natural products chemist. Her research evaluates the role of plant nutrients in human health and wellness.

William Logan has spent the last five decades getting to know trees, as a writer, arborist, and teacher, first in coastal California and the Sierra Nevada, then for the last three decades...