CHARLES DODD WHITE is the author of the novel, LAMBS OF MEN, co-editor of the contemporary Appalachian short story anthology, Degrees of Elevation, and founding editor of the arts and culture blogazine, PLUMB. In 2011 he was awarded a writing fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. His short fiction has appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Fugue, Night Train, North Carolina Literary Review and others. He has been a marine tank crewman, newspaper writer, and fishing guide. He currently teaches English at South College in Asheville, North Carolina. His website is www.charlesdoddwhite.com.
Page Seay is from Nashville, Tennessee.
Chris Holbrook,a native of Knott County, Kentucky, received the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing forHell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Holbrook is associate professor of English at Morehead State University.