Theresa L. Burriss is the Chair of Appalachian Studies and Director of the Appalachian Regional & Rural Studies Center at Radford University, Virginia. She is the contributing senior editor of
Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, and her publications on the Affrilachians have appeared in the journals
Appalachian Heritage and
Iron Mountain Review, as well as in the books
An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature and
Encyclopedia of African American Literature.Patricia M. Gantt is Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of English at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. She is the editor of the five-volume Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers. Her work on Appalachian writers has appeared in Iron Mountain Review, An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature, Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry, and Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Regional Writing.
