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...

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...

Malinda Maynor Lowery is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina; she was born in Robeson County, NC but raised in Durham. She is a historian and documentary film producer who now...

Ashley Whitehead Luskey is the assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. A graduate of The College of William & Mary, she holds a both a master’s degree in...

Peter Mabli is a public historian who serves as director of online programs for the American Social History Project at The CUNY Graduate Center.

Ryan MacDonald is a Theoretical Astrophysicist, Science Communicator and one of the final 100 Astronaut Candidates for Mars One’s proposed 2027 mission to the Red Planet.

Robert MacSwain is an Episcopal priest who teaches theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Nazli Madkour was born in 1949 in Cairo where she lives and works. She holds a master degree in Political Economy from the American University in Cairo. Since 1982, she held over 40 solo...

Drew Magary, a co-founder of Defector and a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle online, wrote at Deadspin for over a decade before quitting with the rest of the staff en masse...

Raised in Cincinnati and educated at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Norm Magnusson lived in Atlanta before moving to New York to work in advertising, which he eventually left to...

Michael Malone is the author of 12 internationally acclaimed novels, including the classic Handling Sin Dingley Falls and The Last Noel. The Four Corners of the Sky was the latest in a...

Marie Manilla is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Prairie Schooner, Mississippi Review, Calyx Journal, The Long Story, Portland...

Faron Manuel is an independent curator, and art writer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2016 Faron has also been the coordinator of the Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship, and the...

D.G. Martin has interviewed more than 250 North Carolina authors on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch and conducted more that 1000 interviews on the radio show Who’s Talking for WCHL...