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 teaches writing and literature at Nashville State Community College and maintains a freelance editing business, Adkerson Communications. She has published poetry and other work under her own name and several pennames, and is currently at work on a novel, Pomegranates.

is a writer and musician who has published more than eighty dramatic musicals, sketchbooks, and collections -- most written in collaboration with her husband, Dennis. A multiple Dove Award nominee, she speaks annually at conferences and seminars. She lives in Tennessee.

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applied for a job as a newspaper artist and was mistakenly assigned to cover local government meetings. Fifteen years and countless town council meetings later, he is still writing instead of drawing, currently as a columnist for the Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia. He began work on his first book while in middle school. Tom is married to author-illustrator Cece Bell. They live in Christiansburg, Virginia.

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grew up on a ranch in California and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He retired from a successful career as a venture capitalist to become a full-time writer. His young adult books have become beloved bestsellers. In addition, he writes extensively on nature and has received The Wilderness Society's highest honor, the Robert Marshall Award, for his efforts to protect America's wilderness heritage. He lives with his family in Colorado.

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, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School. He is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatrist Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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is the critically acclaimed author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, and Midwives. His novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah's Book Club. His work has been translated into more than twenty five languages and twice became movies (Midwives and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.

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is the author of two acclaimed story collections and a novella, including Power Lines, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, she now teaches at the University of Toledo in Ohio. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he edits Poems and Plays. His most recent books are the poetry collection The Martini Diet and the novel Octavius the First, both published in 2008. His work has frequently appeared in Alimentum. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is a part-time lecturer at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He is the author of five poetry collections, three chapbooks and a textbook. Winner of many writing awards and fellowships, his new work appears in North American Review, Louisville Review, South Carolina Review, Prairie Schooner, English Journal, and the 50th Anniversary Anthology of Southern Poetry Review. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is an Associate Professor at Lee University. He has one full-length collection of poems, Exit Lines, and his most recent chapbook manuscript, Holy Days: Poems, won the Split Oak Press Chapbook Competition. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, Folio, Connecticut Review, South Carolina Review, Stickman Review, and Atlanta Review, among other journals. He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, InsideHigherEd.com, The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica.

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, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, is the author of many lauded works of fiction. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

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is a journalist with thirty years experience writing for national publications about entertainment. She is one of the nation's premier writers and authorities on bluegrass music, and she also worked several years as a freelance writer and editor in the Branson, Mo. music scene in the late 1980s-mid-`90s. Cardwell has served as the Special Projects Director for the International Bluegrass Music Association based in Nashville, Tennessee, where she writes publications and manages professional development, leadership and youth programs.

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is the author of twenty-five books for young readers including novels, series, books for "American Girl" and picture books. The Horn Book praised her picture book, Some Dog!, saying, "Satisfying sound play and frequent dog howls and yips will make this canine tale a hit as a group read-aloud and a read-alone for new readers." Illustrated by Ard Hoyt, The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town features an outlaw who stirs up trouble looking for something to stop his itchin' and twitchin', but no one knows what to do, except Sam who leads him to the library. Kirkus said, "This hilarious tall tale [is] not only a plug for books and reading but an outsized winner." Mary makes her home in northern Minnesota with her husband, Charlie, and their dogs and horses.

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has worked as a business writer and analyst for a number of blue chip companies including Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Bank of America. His award-winning work has been translated into six languages. Cassidy is also a working songwriter and freelance recording engineer. Beatles music and lore have run deep in his DNA for more than thirty years.

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is the author of thirty one novels and numerous short stories and articles. He lives in Nashville, Tenn.

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is a poet and memoirist who lives in the mountains of New Mexico. She has two books of poetry published, In an Angry Season and Destruction Bay and has had work included in such collections as Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, and Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing.

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was born in Monroeville, Alabama. He is the author of six previous novels and three books for children. He has lived in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, California, Costa Rica, and currently lives in Key West, Florida. Read more at Chapter 16.

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has written articles for Filson Club Historical Quarterly, Northern Kentucky Encyclopedia, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, and Tennessee Historical Quarterly.

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is a successful author, columnist and businessman. A Beatles fan since the age of nine, he frequently incorporates the group into columns in the Tennessean, CityPaper and InReview. Courtney, also the author of Buyers are Liars and Sellers are, Too! and a contributing writer for Donald Trump's The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received, has served as president of Greater Nashville Association of Realtors and has been a professional realtor for thirty years. Additionally, he has served as chairman of the Electric Power Board of Nashville and is the founder and chair of the Nashville Beatles Festival.

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currently resides in Tennessee with her husband and her children. She is a stay-at-home mom who is currently developing the next in the series of books that will fall under The Citizen Chronicles brand. When not writing, she loves to take part in adrenaline-boosting activities such as rock climbing, cliff diving, and skiing.

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is a reporter with the Cincinatti Enquirer.

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is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Four Testimonies. An associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University, she is the recipient of the Hanes Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and lives in Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is a former senior class president and homecoming queen who left home at eighteen for a short mission trip to Africa. Katie lives in Uganda, where she is the adoptive mother of thirteen girls and the head of Amazima, a ministry that reaches hundreds of other children.

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holds an MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University and is the co-founder of the Nashville Review. Her poems appear most recently in Printer's Devil Review and Borderlands. 

burned his first novel at the age of twenty-two in a drunken, Greenlandic ice fit of literary inadequacy. It was Faulkner who struck that match. He has since written business plans, dissertations, diatribes, and pithy holiday letters to soothe the savage beast of his imagination. Now a recovering academic, he lives and writes in Alabama. This is his first novel, again.

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is the author of five published novels and two plays. She has a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of New Mexico. She writes for the Taos News and for the bilingual, Albuquerque-based Mas New Mexico.

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is the recipient of the 2007 Oberon Poetry Prize, and the 2006 Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry. Other work appears in Original Sin: The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost, SouthernReader, Poems Niederngasse, SouthLit, Arsenic Lobster, Dogwood, Narrative, Rosebud and others.

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is the author of seven bestsellers, including, Raney, Walking Across Egypt, and Where Trouble Sleeps. Five of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. A musician and songwriter, he lives with his wife, Kristina, and their children in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Read more at Chapter 16.

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The Ukedelics are--it's probably safe to say--Nashville best (and probably only) ukulele band. The Ukedelics are the performing extension of The Nashville Ukulele Society, a local club devoted to the tiny instrument where anyone and everyone can come and play along.

is a poet and teacher of English at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Indiana Review, Green Mountains Review, and Cimarron Review. His chapbook of poems, The Perfect Hour, was published by Pleasure Boat Studio in 2006. A Question of Gravity and Light is his first book-length collection of poems. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is Distinguished University Professor at Auburn University.

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is the author of I'll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence, which Sojourners magazine called "a definitive popular culture study for the new millennium." The book was published in paperback by the Continuum group in September. Friskics-Warren has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and the Oxford American. He is a Senior Editor at No Depression and has had his work reprinted in three volumes of Da Capo Best Music Writing.

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's fiction has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. He has won the William Peden Award and the James Michener Memorial Prize. He lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Read more at Chapter 16.

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grew up in a small Tennessee town and spent her early adulthood collecting impractical degrees from various Midwestern universities. A former high school English teacher, she now writes full time in Oklahoma. So far, her husband and cat are putting up with this. The Revenant is her debut novel. Read more at Chapter 16.

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graduated from Howard University and moved to Nashville with her husband, Howard Gentry, Sr., in 1949. She taught rhythmic and modern dance at Tennessee State University, working with the majorette program. She is the mother of two, Carol Gentry Johnson and Howard Gentry, Jr.

was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He and his wife currently live in the Washington, D.C., area, where he manages the Eugene Walter estate.

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is editor of Fjords arts and literary review. He was poet-in-residence for "Attitude: The Dancer's Magazine" from 2008-2011.

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is associate professor of Christian Studies at Union University and co-founder of Augustine School, a Christian liberal arts school in Jackson, Tennessee. He has written numerous journal articles and reviews.

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is the author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, Last Man Out, and There Is No Me Without You. Two of her books have been finalists for the National Book Award, and New York University's journalism department named Praying for Sheetrock one of the top 100 works of journalism in the twentieth century. She has written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, Life, Reader's Digest, Redbook, and Salon, among others. She and her husband, Don Samuel, have nine children and live in Atlanta. Read more at Chapter 16.

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has been Middle Tennessee's most enduringly popular Celtic band since their inception in 1993. Influenced by The Pogues, The Chieftains, and traditional Irish pub bands, TSC's music mixes original material with traditional music and many styles of American and European folk. Secret Commonwealth is currently recording its third album, due for release in early 2012.

, who grew up in the United States and Guatemala, is a journalist, food writer, culinary instructor, and recipe developer. She lives in Cary, North Carolina with her husband and their daughters.

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was a teenage UFO investigator in the 1960s. Later he became a professor of religious studies-his specialty, religious traditions of heavenly ascent. From 1976 through 2000, he taught Jewish history in the Religious Studies Deparmtent at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Now retired, he lives in North Carolina. This is his first novel. Read more at Chapter 16.

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directs the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University and serves as Poetry Editor for the Hollins Critic. Her short fiction was awarded a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, and has appeared in VQR, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, Gargoyle and several anthologies.

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is a veteran newspaperman who grew up on the battlefield of Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a writer and editor at newspapers across the South. Among his national awards is a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama.

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teaches at Columbia State Community College and is the author of two chapbooks and one collection of poems, Fall Sanctuary, recipient of the Nicholas Roerich Prize. His poems appear in The Southern Review, Hudson Review, Poetry Northwest, North American Review, and elsewhere.

has been telling stories since before she could write. She grew up in Dallas, TX, where her first book was published in her elementary school library at age seven. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Vanderbilt University. She currently resides in Nashville with her baby grand piano and more story ideas than she could tell in one lifetime.

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is the creator and keeper of one of the world's top folklore websites, the SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages and SurLaLuneFairyTales.com. The site shares fairy tale illustrations from the Golden Age of illustration and more than a thousand full-text fairy tales from around the world.

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has written over 100 titles which include a mix of children's books, articles, parent-teacher books, curricula, preschool musicals, and CDs/DVDs of original music for children. An accomplished songwriter, Karyn was a Dove Award nominee and received a regional Emmy Award as Music Composer for a Christmas TV special. A graduate of Abilene Christian University, Karyn received her M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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was born and raised in the South. A former real estate agent, she most recently worked as the director of marketing for a construction company. Henson left the construction industry to pursue her lifelong dream of writing fulltime. She lives with her husband near Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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covers American music, the rootsier side of things especially, for Nashville Public Radio, American Songwriter, the Nashville Scene, Relix and a number of other outlets. In her first book, she traces out the dynamic relationships between eight distinctive songwriters, their backgrounds and their creative output. Hight has a master's from Vanderbilt University Divinity School and she lives, writes and clogs in Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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teaches at Vanderbilt University and is the author of Brother Salvage, recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His poems appear in Columbia, The Hudson Review, The New Republic, Paris Review, and Poetry.

has written short stories, personal essays, and book reviews for numerous publications and anthologies. "Surviving Mom" was included in Marlo Thomas' collection of essays "The Right Words at the Right Time Vol. 2." Her Black Mountain story, "Circle of Light," was nominated for Sundress Best of 2008.

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is the author of A Stolen Tongue; The Dress Lodger, a New York Times Notable Book; and The Mammoth Cheese, short listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and a San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.

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is president emeritus of Austin Peay State University. She served six years on the Commission on Colleges Executive Council and was active on the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Board of Directors. Sherry lives in Chattanooga, where her hometown hero grew up. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is a novelist from Charleston, SC, the author of Dreams of Sleep (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction), Rich in Love, The Fireman's Fair, and Nowhere Else on Earth, winner of the Southern Book Award in fiction. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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is the author of Same Knight, Different Channel: Basketball Legend Bob Knight at West Point and Today and coauthor, with Dennis Rodman, of the basketball star's memoir, I Should Be Dead by Now.

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is a retired housewife still living in the same house in Selma, Alabama.

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is a professor of history at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Dr. Johnson's research interests include the Mexican War and Civil War. His publications include A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign; A Fighter From Way Back: The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill and Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory. The Virginia Historical Society has named him an Andrew J. Mellon Research Fellow twice (1994, 2002). Yale University named him the Archibald Hanna, Jr. Research Fellow in American History for 2005, and he has been in residence at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the Yale campus. Dr. Johnson has been featured on C-SPAN's BookTV and The History Channel.

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is a Nashville attorney who has practiced law for thirty-four years. For nine years, Jones was chairman of Tricor, the Tennessee Prison Industry program, appointed by the governor. His practice has acquainted him with many of the principal players of the Marcia Trimble case. He is a contributor to Murder, Macabre, and Menace: True Stories from Masters in Crime, to be published by Prometheus in 2012.

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is the author of two previous novels. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She serves on the M.F.A. faculty at Rutgers. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the author of fourteen books, including Packing Light: New & Selected Poems, from Black Widow Press, published in 2009. In addition to poetry, her works include translations, anthologies, personal essays, criticism and children's books. Recent books include Circe, After Hours, poetry published by BkMk Press, University of Missouri - Kansas City, in 2005, The Art of College Teaching: Twenty-eight Takes, co-edited with April Morgan, published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2005 and in 2006 from Black Widow Press a revised edition of Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translated by Marilyn Kallet. Her books released in 2007 are Jack The Healing Cat, a children's book from Tellico Books, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion, co-edited with Kathryn Stripling Byer, from Helicon Nine Editions, Kansas City. Dr. Kallet is a Lindsay Young Professor of English at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she directed the Creative Writing Program for seventeen years. Read more at Chapter 16.

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first started playing music in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, getting kicked out for suggesting they play a Dolly Parton song. Kelley has penned songs that were recorded by Loretta Lynn, Trisha Yearwood, and Ricky Scaggs among others. She released an album, Simple Path, and continues to write hit songs in Nashville.

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writes from the unique perspective of one who has lost many of those close to her. Her mother's death was suspicious enough to launch a homicide investigation and lengthy legal rollercoaster. This ultimately led to a sentence of more than 15 years for her mother's boyfriend. During the next eight years she would lose her grandmother, step-father, step-mother, and father, as well as miscarrying while awaiting her mother's boyfriend's trial. Ms. King currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, Dan, and their two children. She is an award-winning songwriter, writing mostly for film and TV.

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is a native of South Carolina; she holds a PhD in English literature and taught at Buffalo State College for over thirty years. Now retired from academe, she is a Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner who works primarily with cancer patients. She resides in Buffalo, New York, and is the author of WHEN THE MORNING BREAKS: JOY FOR THE JOURNEY

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is a past receipient of the Louisiana Artist Fellowship in Literature. In 2006, she received a Louisiana Cultural Economy Grant for her writings on Katrina evacuation and recovery. Her novella was awarded the 2010 Pirates' Alley Faulkner Society Medal. She is an associate professor at Xavier University in Louisiana.

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lives with his wife and children in Memphis, Tennessee. Preston was born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated from Flagler College and the University of Mississippi. For most of the twenty-first century, he has worked as an editor and journalist. Read more at Chapter 16.

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Shelby Bottom String Band performs quirky, literate Americana, originals and old songs of social relevance today, all delivered with wit and charm. Band members are Michael August, guitar and vocals, Nell Levin, fiddle and vocals, Holly Tashian, standup bass and vocals, Bob Mason, mandolin and vocals, Gene Bush, dobro and vocals and Dave Thomas, drums and percussion.

is the host and producer of the nationally and internationally syndicated, "The Country Vibe with Chuck and Becca." Long is a popular personality in Nashville, thanks to his hosting stints on the WB's "Mornings," The Americana Network's "Americana Digest" and "Writer's Notes," correspondent duties on the syndicated television show "Crook and Chase" and the Shop at Home Network, where he served as a Senior Host. Long hosts entertainment segments on Nashville's WTVF-NewsChannel 5+. An accomplished actor, Long has a substantial resume of film, television and theatre roles.

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is the director of the Tennessee Literary Project at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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is contributing editor, Vanity Fair, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

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knew Welty for the last eighteen years of her life and is the author of Eudora Welty: A Biography and One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty. She is a recipient of the Phoenix Award for Distinguished Welty Scholarship. She is a professor of English at Millsaps College in Welty's hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. As the writer Reynolds Price put it, "Suzanne Marrs knows more about Eudora Welty than anyone else."

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is the author of In Country, Shiloh and Other Stories, An Atomic Romance, Nancy Culpepper, and a memoir, Clear Springs. She is the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, two Southern Book Awards, and numerous other prizes, including the O. Henry and the Pushcart. She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She is writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky. Read more at Chapter 16.

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served as dean of the Middle Tennessee State University Honors College from 2004 to 2008, but his connections to the College span a four-decades-long teaching career. Highlights of his work include publication of twenty-odd research articles, several biology-related books, and receipt of local, regional, and nation awards for teaching, service, and scholarship. A biologist by training and experience, his poems have appeared in several anthologies and periodicals such as THE INKSLINGER and THE JOURNAL OF KENTUCKY STUDIES. His poem "Two Bits of Botanic Art," won the 1996 Silver Quill Award from the Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas.

is the author of six nonfiction books, most recently, her debut novel, Almost to Eden, which won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel. She is also a published poet and has completed workshops with former U.S. poet laureates Mark Strand and Billy Collins. She was the founding director of the MTSU Honors Program and chair of the University's Department of Foreign Languages. Since her retirement from teaching in 2004, she has become a full-time author and has won awards for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

 teaches at Belmont University and is the author of American Amen from Dream Horse Press. His poems appear in The Laurel Review, Barn Owl Review, Memorious, The Pinch, Salt Hill, Colorado Review and elsewhere.

grew up in southwest Arkansas listening to porch stories in the community where she was raised. Years later, while doing course work on a doctorate in history, she conducted research in African-American history, concentrating, particularly, on Southwest Arkansas. An award winning teacher, she has taught in public high schools, in a private high school, in community colleges, in two MFA programs (Emerson and UNH), at Vanderbilt's Owen School of Finance, and at Harvard. She currently lives in Nashville, TN, where she has discovered how hard it is to write a good country song.

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lost his eyesight in an automobile accident at age 18. After training in Braille and mobility skills, David quickly returned to college. He earned a bachelor's in Business Communications from Southern Illinois University and a master's in Industrial Relations at Loyola University of Chicago. David is a National Champion in Blind Golf, a recent winner of the Masters of Blind Golf, and has to his credit three holes in one! He received the Kaia Jergenson Courage Award from the Nashville Sports Council in 2003. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and children.

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's work has appeared in Mississippi Review, Third Coast, and others. He lives in Nashville with his wife and son where they promote the writing of fiction whether there is time or not. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including The Butterfly's Daughter, Time Is a River, The Beach House. She is also the author of award winning children's books. Monroe was awarded the SC Center for the Book award for fiction and the International Book Award for Green Fiction. www.maryalicemonroe.com

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is the author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, most notably his novel Gap Creek and his biography of Daniel Boone, both of which were national bestsellers. A professor at Cornell University since 1971 and visiting writer-in-residence at half a dozen universities, his awards include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010.

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was born in London, England and emigrated to the US as a small lad with his family. He has worked as a professional musician, composer, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter. He has composed music for the BBC as well as writing and singing the theme song to the first cartoon series on the Fox Children's Network, Zazoo U. This is his first novel. He currently lives in Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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, a former teacher, began each school year with a unit in which kids would follow candy and crumb trails to find their missing Gingerbread Man. Originally from Nashville, she currently lives in Northern Virginia. This is her first book.

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was born and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi. After graduating from Swarthmore College with a degree in English Literature, she worked in book publishing in New York for twenty-five years. A freelance writer since 2002, she is a regular contributor to Delta magazine and has written for Mississippi magazine and NPR's Opinion Page. She is also a travel writer for Fodor's in Mexico and Guatemala. She lives in Yazoo City and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich. Buryin' Daddy is her first book.

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is the author of a dozen award-winning novels, including A Prayer for the Dying, The Night Country, and The Good Wife, as well as several books of nonfiction, including, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is a graduate of Johnson and Wales University and chef/owner of FARMbloomington restaurant. He has worked in France's most elite restaurants and has been executive chef at New York's famed La Grenouille. He is host of Earth Eats on NPR affiliate station WFIU.

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is the author of four previous novels and two books of short stories. Winner of the Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and an NEA fellowship, he has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, and others. He is a professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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is a Memphis native, now a special events director in Tennessee where she lives with her sons. She is donating a portion of her proceeds for the book to an organization in support of single mothers. Read more at Chapter 16.

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s fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, twice in The Pushcart Prize, and once in New Stories from the South. She is the author of three previous story collections: Vaquita (winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature), Love Among the Greats (winner of the Spokane Fiction Award), and How to Fall (winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize). She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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is the author of six works of fiction, including The Wishbones, Election and Joe College. His novels Election and Little Children were made into acclaimed and award-winning movies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the author-illustrator of the highly acclaimed and award-winning graphic novel The Storm in the Barn. He is also the illustrator of many books for young readers, including Always and I'll Be There by Ann Stott and The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, winner of the 2007 Newbery Medal. He lives in Philadelphia.

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lives in Whites Creek, Tennessee. She blogs for the Nashville Scene at their political blog "Pith in the Wind". She also blogs at her own site, Tiny Cat Pants. Her stories have appeared in Qarrtsiluni and Apex.

is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books for children, including Sit-In, one of many collaborations with her husband, illustrator Brian Pinkney. They live in Brooklyn, NY with their two children.

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is a writer and artist who has contributed work on such comics titles as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Hellboy: Weird Tales, Star Wars Tales, The Incredible Hulk, Black Panther, The Avengers, The Hood, MAD Magazine. Eking out a meager living in the comics field since 1995, Eric didn't find true success until he launched his critically acclaimed dark comedy series The Goon which was subsequently picked up by Dark Horse Comics. He has been working in collaboration with acclaimed director David Fincher to bring the Goon to life on the big screen as an animated feature film.

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has worked in libraries and bookstores in North Carolina, in Tennessee, and in Utah, where she's now a part-time librarian. A full-time dog lover, she's been active in local animal rescue work for many years. A Dog's Way Home is Bobbie's first book for tween readers and her first for HarperCollins. Her debut YA novel, The Ring, was published in 2009 by Westside Books.Bobbie lives in Park City, UT with her husband, Todd, and her dogs Boo, Teddy, and Sherlock.

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has led the fight against mountaintop removal through his work as Tennessee Director of Appalachian Voices. In January 2007 JW moved to Washington, DC to open Appalachian Voices office in the capital. There he led in the fight against mountaintop removal, working with citizens from across Appalachia to bring their voices to Congress and the White House. In that time, more than 200 members of Congress cosponsored either the Clean Water Protection Act (House) or Appalachia Restoration Act (Senate), while the Obama Administration was the first in history to take steps to limit mountaintop removal. He lives with his family in Nashville.

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is a graduate of the University of Missouri with a degree in business, and started a health care management company in 1984. He is the publisher of the monthly newspaper, West Tennessee Medical News. He is active in community organizations and has served as president of United Way Jackson and chairman of the Jackson Arts Council. He lives on a farm near Jackson.

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is a writer, director, and producer for the award-winning Discovering Alabama television series, a program of The University of Alabama's Alabama Museum of Natural History in cooperation with Alabama Public Television. He lives with his family in Birmingham.

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Matthew Niemiller and R. Graham Reynolds are doctoral graduates of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Reynolds, who grew up in North Carolina, has concentrated his research on the population genetics, ecology, and conservation of amphibians and reptiles in Tennessee, Central America, and the Caribbean.

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grew up in Georgia, where he spent many happy hours in the swamps and river bottoms on which the wild places of The Charlatan's Boy are based. He received his undergraduate degree from Furman University and holds a doctorate in seventeenth-century English literature from Vanderbilt University. He lives with his family in Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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Husband & Wife Duo---Kristi Rose & Fats Kaplin, have long been recognized as artists of distinctive note. Kristi Rose as a powerful and evocative singer and writer. Fats Kaplin as a composer and master multi-instrumentalist, who, over several decades, has played with hundreds of artists. Together they are mesmerizing performers who have created a highly eclectic musical genre, (and a way of life) known as Pulp Country.

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is the author of Chicken Soup for the Soul/Country Music edition, which includes stories behind 101 country songs. He is a former English professor at Nashville State Community College and has also worked as a writer/producer for the Christian Broadcasting Network. He wrote and produced the documentary, 40 Years on the Farm, about The Farm commune in Summertown, Tennessee.

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is Frank McDonald Professor and head of the Communications Department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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is Special Collections librarian and archivist at the University of Tennessee, Martin. He is currently completing a biography of Harry Harrison Kroll.

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lived for ten years outside Naples, Italy. This displacement experience helped shape When We Were Strangers, a historical novel of 19th Century immigration, a Barnes & Noble Great New Writers and major book club selection. Her award-winning short stories have appeared in England, France, Italy and the U.S. She was a University of Tennessee Library Writer in Residence and now lives in Knoxville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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has set up camp all over the world - from China to Mali to Morocco. of IEP, a nonprofit which helps raise money for local language programs and book printing in Mali, West Africa. Scieszka is a native of, and currently lives in, Brooklyn, New York.

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is a teacher with two science degrees. She lives in Nashville. This is her third novel.

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is an associate professor of law at Vanderbilt University. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he has been awarded fellowships in legal history from Harvard, New York University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has written for The Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, The Economist, the Washington Post, and other publications. He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the author of two nonfiction books about the ancient world: Alexander the Great Rocks the World, a VOYA Honor Pick for Nonfiction, and Cleopatra Rules!. A docent in the Ancient History department of the Carlos Museum of Art, she lives in Avondale Estates, GA.

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has been an educator for many years and currently teaches computer technology. She also writes a weekly column about new children's book for her local newspaper.

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is the author of many critically acclaimed children's books, including the New York Times bestseller Wild About Books, The Sleepy Little Alphabet, Born to Read, Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf, and Tell the Truth, B.B. Wolf.

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is the author of the acclaimed Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination, Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, and editor of the recent Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories and The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime. He lives in western Pennsylvania. Read more at Chapter 16.

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loves dragons. He wishes he had a few. Actually, he wishes he had a few dozen. Unfortunately, at the moment he doesn't even have one. Because of this he's really enjoyed telling the tale of Beck Phillips and his family's ability. To quote Obert, "Dragon roll aside, writing this book has been one exciting ride." Obert is also the award-winning author of the bestselling Leven Thumps series. Obert currently lives indoors and near a thin, winding road.

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has been awarded the Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship Award for Literary Arts, the Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, and the Brick Streets Press Short Story.

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is an artist, musician, writer and healer who regards the journey of self-realization and healing as one that all of us take together. In her own life she has experienced radical healing as a result of making the choice to pray rather than commit suicide at the age of twenty-three. Leaving behind a past of childhood abuse, dysfunction, anorexia, years of self-medication, promiscuity and suicidal depression, Pamela dedicated her next twenty-three years to a higher path of intense spiritual awakening.

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Bryan Steverson is a retired chief metallurgist with a Fortune 500 Company. He is a baseball historian, writer, and speaker, and lives in Maryville, Tennessee with his wife Barbara.

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is the author of a novel, All The Finest Girls. A graduate of Barnard College and the M.F.A. program at Columbia University, Alexandra's work has appeared in several anthologies as well as The New Yorker, the New York Times, Avenue, Real Simple, and Interview among other publications. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and spent 10 years as a tenured professor at Princeton University. Previous books have won the Woodrow Wilson Prize and other honors. She has held visiting fellowships at Stanford University and the Russell Sage Institute. She was elected to the Executive Board of the Southern Political Science Association in 1999.

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is the author of America's Historic Trails and Wildlands of the Upper South, and coauthor of The Almanac of American History. His articles have appeared in Smithsonian, the Washington Post, National Geographic Traveler, and other publications, and his short stories have been published in Louisiana Literature, South Dakota Review, and many other literary journals. He has lived in the South all his life. This is his first novel.

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was born and raised in Nashville, but has lived and studied in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kalispell, Montana and Morgantown, West Virginia. Once an award-winning staff reporter for the Columbia Daily Herald in Columbia, Tennessee, her essays have been published in The Southern Review, Creative Nonfiction, and the Tampa Review. In 2007 she was the winner of the AWP Intro Journals Award for creative nonfiction. She currently resides in Chattanooga, where she teaches literature and writing and coaches rowing at the The McCallie School. Read more at Chapter 16.

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was kidnapped by pirates at the age of five and spent her childhood at sea, swabbing the deck of a ship with a mop made from the stolen whiskers of a rare silver manatee. Or she wishes she had been, because then she would have an interesting life story to tell. Instead, she grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky with no ocean in sight and now lives near Nashville. She enjoys drawing pictures, reading books, imagining adventures and trying desperately to convince her beautiful and neurotic dog to go outside. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University's Center for Medicine, Health & Society and Department of French & Italian. Her research focuses on the history of medicine. She writes for publications including the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Nashville. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the host of the popular BookTalk radio program, which airs every Saturday night on WYPL from Memphis. 

lives in Nashville. Her "outstanding debut," The Illuminator, was translated into fifteen languages and chosen as a Book Sense 2006-2007 Reading Group Pick. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the author of My Big Fat Manifesto, Trigger, Exposed, and other novels, as well as Oathbreaker, which she coauthored with her son, JB Redmond. She is also a practicing psychiatrist.

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is a writer from Baton Rouge, LA. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, Epoch, and American Short Fiction, among others, and have been anthologized in Best New American Voices, Best of the Net, and Bar Stories. His collection The Prospect of Magic won the Tartt's First Fiction Prize, was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for General Fiction, and was an Editor's Pick for Best New Books of 2010 by Oxford American. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Universty of New Orleans and can be reached through www.mowalsh.com.

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,as part pf a rock-in-roll trio called Riley, recorded in 1970 an album of grits 'n' gravy Southern rock called "Grandma's Roadhouse" at Bradleys Barn Studios with the help of future country music legend Gary Stewart (She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Doubles." Only problem is that nobody heard it...until now. On Sept 7, 2010, "Grandma's Roadhouse" was reissued by Delmore Recordings, and Riley and drummer Jim Snead have reunited, spreading the gospel of the albums opening lines: "Barbecued pork on cornbread, Sure do treat a belly fine. A tall, cool glass of buttermilk, That's how Grandma blows your mind!"

, a native of Washington, D.C., has set up camp all over the world -
from China to Mali to Morocco. He is co-founder of American Friends
of IEP, a nonprofit which helps raise money for local language
programs and book printing in Mali, West Africa. He currently lives
in Brooklyn.

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is Professor of Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, which in 2003 honored him with the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences. Read more at Chapter 16.

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performs her poetry with her daughter Kelsey, a multi-instrumentalist who plays old-time and other roots music. The duo's act has been called "bluegrass rap" and "hillbilly cool." Kory's "standout" nonfiction has been praised by Ladies' Home Journal, and her work appears in Now & Then, New Southerner, Literary Mama, Pindeldyboz, and Ruminate. She is a mentor with The Writer's Loft at Middle Tennessee State University. Read more at Chapter 16.

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is the author of the novel The Mailbox, a member of the Proverbs 31 Ministries writing team, and a nationwide speaker to women's groups. She lives with her husband and their six children outside Charlotte, North Carolina.

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is the author of The Silverskin Legacy fantasy trilogy, as well as the tween humor novels, Front Page Face-Off and Odd Girl In. She is a member of the SCBWI and is one of the founding members of AS IF! (Authors Supporting Intellectual Freedom) and the Texas Sweethearts & Scoundrels. Jo has also written for, and been featured in, newspapers and national magazines. When she isn't writing, Jo spends her time with family and friends in Austin, dreaming of the day she can afford a chocolate house with toffee furniture.

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is the author and illustrator of Frankie Pickle, a new chapter book series published by Simon & Schuster. Prior to that, he was an animator for almost ten years for such companies as Walt Disney, Warner Bros., and Cartoon Network. Wight's comic book adaptation of the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay helped garner both the Harvey and Eisner Awards for Best Anthology, as well as the Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer, and his debut graphic novel My Dead Girlfriend was listed among the 2008 Great Graphic Novels for Teens by YALSA. His artwork has also been prominently featured on such tv series as The O.C. and Six Feet Under.

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is a certified diabetes nurse practitioner.

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is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Slow Talk Of Stones, from Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Crucible, Earth's Daughters and Clark Street Review. Ms. Wright has taught poetry workshops for The Kentucky State Poetry Society and Women In Transition and has read extensively throughout The Ohio Valley. Currently, she is the host of From The Inkwell, a literary radio show.

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