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...

Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, 2023), which received five stars from Roxane Gay, was named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by...

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...

Viridiana Martínez was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. After the national devaluation of the peso and Mexican economic crisis in 1994, Viridiana’s father lost his job, leaving...

A native of Hillsborough, North Carolina, Elizabeth Matheson earned her BA from Sweet Briar College and later studied at the Penland School of Crafts with John Menapace. One-person...

Erin Stewart Mauldin, Ph.D., is an environmental historian, educator, and author. A native of Tennessee, longtime resident of Birmingham, Alabama, and a recent transplant to Florida, she is...

Allyn Maxfield-Steele is a 36-year old white man raised in Texas, Germany, and North Carolina. He was born into a family of educators, secretaries, farmers, salesmen, social workers, and...

Edward Mayes is the author of several volumes of poetry, including First Language, Juniper Prize (University of Massachusetts Press) and Works and Days, AWP Prize in Poetry (University of...

Frances Mayes lives on a farm in North Carolina and in Bramasole, the house in Tuscany she bought 24 years ago. Her most recent books are The Tuscan Sun Cookbook and a memoir of growing up...

Anna Jean (A. J.) Mayhew’s first novel, The Dry Grass of August, won the 2011 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the 2012 Book Award from the Southern Independent...

James McBride is an award-winning writer and composer. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Color of Water, won the 1997 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Literary Excellence, was an ALA...

Richard McColl was born and raised in London, England with a short but cherished stint in Princeton, NJ, but now makes his home in South America where he has been for the past eighteen...

Jill McCorkle is the author of seven novels (most recent: Hieroglyphics) and four story collections. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals, and four of her short stories have been...

Born in Dyersburg, TN, Linda McCune earned her B.F.A. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and her M.F.A. from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Her sculptures and...

Karen Salyer McElmurray’s Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey was an AWP Award winner for creative nonfiction.

Michael McFee has published fourteen books, most recently a collection of poetry, That Was Oasis (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), a chapbook of one-line poems, The Smallest Talk...

Born and raised in Oakboro, North Carolina (pop 612), Wallace McLendon earned his BA in English and Masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Will McInerney was born and raised in a 150-year-old farm house in the American South.

Sarah McNamara is an historian whose writings examine the histories of Latinxs, women and gender, immigration, and labor in the modern United States. She is a professor in the Department of...

Philip J. Merrill is a historian, consultant, and founder and CEO of Nanny Jack & Co., LLC, an African American heritage consulting firm with thousands of artifacts from the 1700s to the...