The Authors

These authors are confirmed to attend the 2010 Southern Festival of Books
(Note: This page was last updated 26 July 2010)

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  • Janny Adkins has dedicated her nursing career to bridging the gap between conventional and complementary health and medicine. She has helped to create innovative health programs, including Hospice of Mercy, COMMIT-A National Quit Smoking Trial, Iowa Hospice Organization, Iowa Breast Cancer Action Coalition, The St. Luke's Clown Connection; a pastoral care ministry, and St. Luke's Women's Care. St. Luke's Women's Care was recognized nationally as an innovative integrated health center for the midlife woman. She maintains a private spiritual coaching practice. Help Healing Happen: A Holistic Guide to Redefining Health, Hope, and Healing
  • Tammy Algood is an author, editor, and spokesperson. She conducts cooking schools at various Tennessee wineries and has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers. She is married and lives in Nashville. The Complete Southern Cookbook
  • Tom Angleberger 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 Christianburg, Virginia. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
  • Raymond Atkins was named 2009 Georgia Author of the Year by the Georgia Writers Association for his first novel, The Front Porch Prophet. He is a columnist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications. Sorrow Wood
  • Tracy Barrett is the author of several novels, including On Etruscan Time, Cold in Summer, Anna of Byzantium, and the Sherlock Files series. She teaches Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University. Tracy lives with her family in Nashville. King of Ithaka
  • Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility—the Body Farm—a quarter century ago. He is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career at the Body Farm, Death's Acre. Dr. Bass is also a dedicated teacher, honored as National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Jon Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science, and broadcast on National Public Radio. The coauthor of Death's Acre, he is also the writer and producer of two highly rated National Geographic documentaries about the Body Farm. Beyond the Body Farm
  • Rick Bass's fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Most recently, his memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Nashville Chrome
  • Bryan Batt appears on the Emmy Award-winning drama Mad Men and has performed in many Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including Jeffrey, Starlight Express, Cats, and Beauty and the Beast. Hazelnut, the home-accessory shop he owns with his partner in New Orleans, has been featured in the New York Times, House Beautiful, InStyle, and other publications. She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother
  • John Claude Bemis grew up in rural eastern North Carolina, where he loved reading the Jack tales and African American trickster stories, as well as fantasy and science fiction classics. A songwriter and musician in an Americana roots band, John found inspiration for his fiction in old-time country and blues music and the Southern folklore at its heart. John lives with his family in North Carolina, and teaches the books that he loves to elementary school students. Visit John's website: www.johnclaudebemis.com The Wolf Tree: Book 2 of the Clockwork Dark
  • Melanie Benjamin lives in Illinois, where she is at work on her next novel. Alice I Have Been
  • Jennie Bentley is the author of the new series of Do-It-Yourself Home Renovation mysteries from Penguin/Berkley Prime Crime. The real Jennie is a realtor and renovator in Nashville, where she lives with a husband and two rambunctious boys, a hyperactive dog, a parakeet, and a carnival goldfish. A native of Norway, she's been living in the US for the past twenty years, and still hasn't been able to kick her native accent. Spackled and Spooked
  • Shane Berryhill is the author of Chance Fortune and the Outlaws, a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and Texas Lone Star Reading List selection. He lives with his wife, Lesley, in Chattanooga. You can find out more about Shane at www.ShaneBerryhill.com. Chance Fortune in the Shadow Zone
  • Clyde Bolton, a native of Wellington, Alabama, is a retired sports writer for the Birmingham News. Some of his awards include: The All-American Football Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in Sportswriting, three-time Alabama Sports Columnist of the Year (1988, 1992, and 1999) and many Associated Press awards. He was inducted into the Alabama Sports Writers Hall of Fame in 2001. Bolton lives in Trussville, Alabama. Hadacol Days
  • John Brandon was raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida. During the writing of Citrus County he worked at a Frito-Lay warehouse and a Sysco warehouse. During another part of the writing of Citrus County book he was unemployed. During the revising he was the John & Renee Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing at University of Mississippi. His favorite recreational activity is watching college football. This is his second book; the first was Arkansas, also a novel. Citrus County
  • Sonny Brewer founded Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. He is the author of Poet of Tolstoy Park and A Sound Like Thunder. He is the editor of the acclaimed anthology series, "Stories from the Blue Moon Café," the latest volume under the title of A Cast of Characters and Other Stories. The Railroad as Art
  • Bill Brown is a part-time lecturer at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He is the author of three 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. The News Inside
  • Kevin Brown is an Associate Professor at Lee University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, Connecticut Review, South Carolina Review, h2so4, Folio, and Quercus Review, among other journals. He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, InsideHigherEd.com, The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica. Exit Lines
  • Stacey Lynn Brown received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Oregon. A poet, playwright and essayist, her work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. She teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, where she lives with her husband, poet Adrian Matejka, and their daughter. Cradle Song
  • Michael Buckley is the author of the New York Times bestselling series and Today Show Al Roker Book Club pick, The Sisters Crimm. He has also written and developed shows for Nickelodeon, Disney, MTV Animation, the Sci-Fi Channel, the Discovery Channel, and VH1. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alison, and son, Finn. NERDS: Book Two: M is for Mama's Boy
  • Mary Buckner's first novel, Hyperthought, was nominated for the 2003 Philip K. Dick Award for distinguished science fiction. As marketing vice president for a nationwide financial firm, her writing earned two Diamond Addy Awards. She is currently a freelance writer, environmental activist, and ardent whitewater kayaker. She recently authored a major research report for the World Wildlife Fund and lives in Nashville. Watermind
  • Marina Budhos has published, among others, the novel Ask Me No Questions, an ALA Notable and winner of the first James Cook Tenn Book Award. Her short stories, articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Nation, Redbook, Dissent, and the Los Angeles Times. In addition to her many awards, Ms. Budhos has been a Fulbright Scholar to India and is an associate professor of English and Asian Studies at William Paterson University. She is married to editor and author Marc Aronson. Tell Us We're Home
  • Dennie Burke served twenty-two years as executive director of Public Relations and Marketing at Austin Peay State University, working as the spokesperson with the media as well as the editor/primary writer for the university's national award-winning alumni magazine. A former president of the four-county Pennyroyal Arts Council, Dennie served on the Kentucky Citizens for the Arts Board of Directors. She lives in Kentucky. A Matter of Conscience: Redemption of a Hometown Hero, Bobby Hoppe
  • Patsy Caldwell is the owner of WaterTown Food Concepts, a cooking school in Charlotte, Tennessee. She has been a culinary professional for more than forty years. Bless Your Heart—Saving the World One Covered Dish at a Time
  • Jamina Carder is a writer from Nashville. Herman's Journey
  • John Casey was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. His novel Spartina won the National Book Award in 1989. He lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is professor of English literature at the University of Virginia. Spartina
  • Marshall Chapman came to Nashville in 1967 to attend Vanderbilt University and wrote her first song in 1973. Her songs have been recorded by Conway Twitty, Jimmy Buffett and many others. She is a contributing editor of Garden & Gun magazine and author of Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller, which was a finalist for the 2004 SEBA Book Award and Book Critics Circle Award. They Came to Nashville
  • Bob Cowser Jr.'s first book, Dream Season, published in 2004 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, was a New York Times Book Review "Editor's Choice" and "Paperback Row" selection and was listed among the Chronicle of Higher Education's best-ever college sports books. It garnered further praise in Sports Illustrated, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and on NPR's Only a Game. His second book, Scorekeeping, a collection of coming-of-age essays, was published in October 2006 by the University of South Carolina Press. Green Fields: Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between
  • James A. Crutchfield is author of fifty books about various aspects of United States history including ten titles in the "States of America" series. His book, Franklin: Tennessee's Handsomest Town, co-authored with Robert Holladay, is the first comprehensive history of the city to appear in decades. Crutchfield's articles have appeared in many national newspapers and magazines. He has received the prestigious Spur Award and two Stirrup Awards from Western Writers of America and is a two-time award recipient from the American Association for State and Local History. Historic Tennessee
  • Frank DeFord is senior writer for Sports Illustrated, author, commentator and correspondent. Bliss, Remembered
  • Judy DiGregorio is a humor columnist and speaker who has published over 300 essays including pieces in The Writer, the Army-Navy Times, ByLine Magazine, New Millennium Writings, numerous anthologies, and two "Chicken Soup" Books. Judy is the author of Life Among the Lilliputians, a collection of humorous essays published by Celtic Cat Publishing, Knoxville. Visit her website and blog at http://www.judyjabber.com/.
  • Lou Dischler, a former inventor and senior scientist with an international manufacturing business, made a stand one day, refused to wear the safety glasses, resigned, and dedicated himself to writing fiction. Cajun by birth, Dischler graduated from Tulane University and now makes his home in Spartanburg, South Carolina. My Only Sunshine
  • Diann Ducharme was born in Indiana, but she spent the majority of her childhood in Newport News, Virginia. She majored in English literature at the University of Virginia, but she never wrote creatively until, after the birth of her second child in 2003, she sat down to write The Outer Banks House. Diann and her husband, Sean, have two beach-loving children, Dorsey and Katherine. The family lives in Manakin-Sabot, Virginia. Visit Diann's Web site at www.DiannDucharme.com. The Outer Banks House
  • Adam Edwards has driven in the ARCA/REMAX national racing series, managed and spotted for a NASCAR nationwide racing team, and worked as a race car driving instructor at the Fast Track School of Racing. He received his M.B.A. from Virgina Tech in 2007, and works as administrator of a longterm care and rehabilitation center in Virginia. Faster Pastor
  • J.T. Ellison is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed "Taylor Jackson" series. A former White House staffer, she's worked extensively with the Metro Nashville Police, the FBI and other law enforcement organizations to research her novels. Visit jtellison.com for more information. The Immortals
  • Kaaren Engel is a visual artist who has exhibited her work regionally, nationally, and internationally, including over a dozen solo exhibitions and numerous group shows. She is a native of Birmingham, Alabama and holds a bachelor's degree from Barnard College, and a law degree from Emory University. Kaaren currently lives in Nashville where she writes, teaches yoga and practices sound healing. She travels extensively, gathering inspiration from all corners of the world. Herman's Journey
  • Karen Essex is the author of four novels, including the international bestseller Leonardo's Swans. Her award-winning essays and articles have appeared in many periodicals, among them L.A. Weekly, Vogue, and Playboy. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Dracula in Love
  • Rachel Held Evans is an award-winning writer whose articles have appeared in local and national publications. She lives in Dayton, Tennessee, with her husband, Dan. Find out more at rachelheldevans.com Evolving in Monkeytown: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
  • Worthy Evans is a graduate of the College of Charleston who has served as a U.S. Army Combat Engineer, an award-winning local sports reporter, and a corporate communications specialist. Whether gainfully employed or unemployed, in the bleachers or in a cubicle, Evans has remained a poet at heart, cultivating the verses found here in his first book. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife and two children. Green Revolver: Poems
  • Jannet Flammang teaches courses in US politics with an emphasis on women and politics. Her current research explores the relationship between meals, conversation, community and democracy. She is the author or editor of books and journal articles on women's politics. She worked on a NSF-funded project on city government responses to issues of moral controversy. She has been a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in both the American Political Science Association and the Western Political Science Association. The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics and Civil Society
  • Harold Ford is a political analyst for MSNBC, a professor of public policy at Vanderbilt University, a vice chairman of Merrill Lynch, and chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. He lives in New York City, New York and Memphis. More Davids than Goliaths: A Political Education
  • Gwynne Forster is national best-selling and award-winning author of seven novels of general fiction, thirty-one romance novels, and eight mainstream and romance novellas. A native North Carolinian who grew up in Washington, DC , Gwynne holds bachelors and masters degrees in sociology, a master's degree in economics/demography and has additional graduate credits in journalism. As a demographer, she is widely published. She is formerly chief of (non-medical) research in fertility and family planning in the Population Division of the United Nations in New York and served for four years as chairperson of the International Programme Committee of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (London, England). A Change Had to Come
  • Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers: Stories and Hell at the Breech. Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches in the University of Mississippi's M.F.A. program and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children, Claire and Thomas. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
  • Mindy Friddle is a former newspaper reporter. She received the 2003 South Carolina Fiction Prize and a Fellowship in Fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Secret Keepers: A Novel
  • Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novel Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen. She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Tennessee with her husband and three daughters. The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove: A Novel
  • Chris Grabenstein is the Anthony Award-winning author of Tilt a Whirl, Mad Mouse, and Whack a Mole. He used to write TV and radio commercials and has written for the Muppets. Currently, Chris and his wife live in New York City with three cats and a dog named Fred. You can visit him (and Fred) at www.ChrisGrabenstein.com. The Smoky Corridor
  • Amy Greene was born and raised in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, where she lives with her husband and two children. Bloodroot
  • Ava Leavell Haymon is the author of the poetry collections Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, Kitchen Heat and The Strict Economy of Fire. She teaches poetry writing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and directs a writers' retreat center in the mountains of New Mexico. Why the House is Made of Gingerbread
  • Mark Heinz lives and works near Nolan Lake in Kentucky. This is his first novel. Shine
  • J. Roderick Heller serves as chairman and CEO of Carnton Capital Associates LP, a venture capital firm in Washington, DC. He holds an A.B. degree in history, summa cum laude, from Princeton University and his L.L.D degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He serves on the board of directors of two public companies, as well as several private companies. Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest
  • Libby Fisher Hellmann writes the award-winning suspense series featuring video producer and single mother Ellie Foreman. Originally from Washington, DC, she has called Chicago home for thirty years. Doubleback: A Novel of Suspense
  • Martha Whitmore Hickman has written two novels, one collection of short stories, and books on grief and spirituality, as well as fourteen books for young children. A native of Massachusetts, she lived a number of years in the South, and now lives with her husband in Los Altos, California. The Walls Come Tumbling Down
  • Robert Hicks has been active in the music industry in Nashville for twenty years as both a music publisher and artist manager. The driving force behind the preservation and restoration of the historic Carnton plantation in Tennessee, he stumbled upon the extraordinary role that Carrie McGavock played during and after the Battle of Franklin. He is the author of The Widow of the South. Historic Tennessee
  • Sara Lewis Holmes is the author of Letters from Rapunzel, winner of the Ursula Nordstrom Fiction Contest. As the wife of an Air Force pilot, she has lived, written, and raised a family in eleven states and three countries, including Germany and Japan. She currently resides in northern Virginia. Operation Yes
  • Robin Hood is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and author of several books about America. He studied painting at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which presented him the Distinguished Alumnus Award during its Centennial Celebration. Hood served as an Army lieutenant in Vietnam before beginning his career with the Chattanooga Free Press, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Hood lives in Franklin, Tennessee where he serves on the boards of several preservation organizations. Historic Tennessee
  • Sherre Hoppe 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. Hoppe lives in Chattanooga, where her hometown hero grew up. A Matter of Conscience: Redemption of a Hometown Hero, Bobby Hoppe
  • Richard Jay Hutto is a noted author of several books on the Gilded Age. An attorney and a former chairman oft he Georgia Council for the Arts, he lives in Macon, Georgia. A Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder and Madness in the Heart of Georgia
  • Scott Huler has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as Backpacker, Fortune, and Child. His award-winning radio work has been heard on All Things Considered and Day to Day on National Public Radio and on Marketplace and Splendid Table on American Public Media. On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood and the Systems that Make Our World Work
  • Catherine Ryan Hyde, an acclaimed novelist and award-winning short-story writer, is the author of the story collection Earthquake Weather and of the novels Love in the Present Tense, Walter's Purple Heart, Funerals for Horses, Electric God, and Pay It Forward, which was named an ALA Book of the Year and made into a feature film. She lives in Cambri, CA. Jumpstart the World
  • Conductor Jack, leader of The Zinghoppers, offers quality, age-appropriate content for preschoolers that emphasizes positive behavior and engages children through learning and laughing.
  • Carlton Jackson is University Distinguished Professor of History at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, where he has taught since 1961. Joseph Gavi: Young Hero of the Mink Ghetto
  • Jay Jennings is a freelance writer who has contributed to the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, The Oxford American, and many other magazines and newspapers. A former reporter for Sports Illustrated and features editor at Tennis magazine, he edited Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game. He lives in Little Rock. Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City
  • Rheta Grimsley Johnson is a syndicated columnist. For over a decade, she has been spending several months a year in southwest Louisiana, deep in the heart of Cajun country. Rheta fell in love with the place, bought a second home, and set in planting doomed azaleas and deep roots. She has found an assortment of beautiful people right on the edge of the Atchafalaya Swamp. Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming
  • River Jordan is a critically acclaimed novelist and playwright whose unique mixture of Southern and mystic writing has drawn comparisons to Sarah Addison Allen, Leif Enger, and Flannery O'Connor. Her previous works include The Messenger of Magnolia Street, lauded by Kirkus Reviews as "a beautifully written, atmospheric tale." She speaks around the country on "Inspiring the Passion of the Story" and makes her home in Nashville. The Miracle of Mercy Land
  • Christy Jordan is a lifelong resident of Northern Alabama (Madison), where her family roots trace back to the founding families of the Tennessee Valley. She holds a B.S. in Home Economics and considers her most important role to be that of wife and mother. Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food that Makes Everyone Feel Like Family
  • John Kasson is a cultural historian, a field that encompasses a rich variety of materials, both "high" and "low," as well as disciplines ranging from literature and the visual arts to psychology and anthropology. He teaches a number of courses in history for undergraduates and graduate students.Professor Kasson has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1971. He has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including a Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship for inspirational undergraduate teaching, election to the Society of American historians, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
  • Lauren Kate grew up in Dallas, went to school in Atlanta, and started writing in New York. She has a master's degree infiction from the University of California, Davis and is the author of The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, and Fallen. Torment
  • Abigail Keam is a full-time beekeeper and member of the Lexington Farmer's Market. She has won thirteen honey awards at the Kentucky State Fair. She lives in Fayette County on the Kentucky River in a metal house with her husband and various critters. www.abigailkeam.com Death By a Honeybee
  • Collin Kelley, a Georgia author of the year award winner and Pushcart nominee, is co-editor of the Java Monkey Speaks poetry anthology series from Poetry Atlanta Press. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies around the world. www.collinkelley.com Conquering Venus: A Novel
  • Les Kerr is a songwriter and author whose music often contains references to New Orleans, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast. He wrote nine of the songs on his new CD, Crawfish Caravan. Tennessee
  • Michael Knight is the author of the award-winning novel Divining Rod and two story collections, Dogfight and Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody. An Alabama native, Knight directs the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee. The Typist
  • Carole Brown Knuth is a writer and teacher at the State University of New York, Buffalo. When the Morning Breaks: Joy for the Journey
  • Michael Largo received a B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and an A.S. in Environmental Science. His varied careers included: English teacher in Harlem, editor of New York Poetry, field guide for a nature conservation center, East Village NYC tavern owner, deckhand on a sea-going tugboat, video producer, and certified builder. He also served on Board of Directors of the Miami Book Fair International. He has been collecting statistics and information on the American way of dying for over a decade. He is a member of The Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America amd Horror Writers of America. God's Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and other Victims of Man's Eternal Search for the Divine
  • Holly LeCraw lives outside of Boston with her husband and three children. Her short fiction has appeared in various publications and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Swimming Pool
  • Jid Lee was born in 1955 in South Korea, where she attended college before coming to the United States as an international student. She obtained her Masters in English in 1982 from SUNY Albany and her Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Kansas, and has been a US citizen since 1989. She is the author of From the Promised Land to Home and a tenured professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She lives near Nashville. To Kill A Tiger: A Memoir of Korea
  • David Madden, a native of Knoxville, is Donald and Velvia Crumbley Professor of Creative Writing and founding director of the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University. He is the author of several novels and books.
  • Kerry Madden has written plays, journalism (for publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Salon, LA Weekly, and Sierra Club Magazine), and six books including Offsides, a New York Library Pick for 1997. In 2005 she turned her hand to children's literature with Gentle's Holler, the first installment of what became the award-winning Maggie Valley Trilogy. Most recently Madden published a biography of Harper Lee, which was named one of the top ten biographies for youth by Booklist and received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. She is currently professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Up Close: Harper Lee
  • Michael Malone is the author of ten novels, a collection of short stories, and two works of nonfiction. Educated at Carolina and at Harvard, he is now a professor in Theater Studies at Duke University. Among his prizes are the Edgar, the O. Henry, the Writers Guild Award, and the Emmy. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with his wife. The Four Corners of the Sky
  • L.Y. Marlow is originally from Philadelphia. She is the founder of Saving Promise, a national organization dedicated to raising awareness of and ending domestic violence — which has affected several generations of her own family. This is her first novel. Color Me Butterfly: A Novel Inspired by One Family's Journey from Tragedy to Triumph
  • Adrienne Martini, a former editor for Knoxville, Tennessee's Metro Pulse, is an award-winning freelance writer and college teacher. Author of Hillbilly Gothic, she lives in Oneonta, New York, with her husband, Scott, and children, Maddy and Cory. Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
  • Ross Massey is a founding member of the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, and has been very active in locating forgotten earthworks from the Civil War and in preservation of local battlefield sites. He appeared on the popular program Civil War Journal, shown on the A & E network. He lives with his wife in Nashville. Nashville Battlefield Guide
  • June Hall McCash is the author of three non-fiction books about Jekyll Island and three books about the Middle Ages. She holds a doctorate in comparative literature from Emory University and has been a fellow of both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Education, as well as treasurer of the Jekyll Island foundation. She is the recipient of awards for teaching, research and career achievement during her tenure at Middle Tennessee State University, and is now a full-time writer. Almost to Eden
  • Jill McCorkle is the author of eight previous books-three story collections and five novels-five of which have been selected as New York Times Notable Books. She is the winner of the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She teaches writing at North Carolina State University and lives with her husband in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Going Away Shoes
  • Sharyn McCrumb is the author of many bestselling novels, including The Songcatcher, The Rosewood Casket, She Walks These Hills, and The Ballad of Frankie Silver, which was nominated for a SEBA award. She has received awards for Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature and Southern Writer of the Year. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Faster Pastor
  • Trish Milburn writes romance for Harlequin American under her own name and young adult fiction under the name Tricia Mills. She is a two-time winner of Romance Writer of America's Golden Heart award, and currently serves on the board of directors. Prior to writing full-time,she was managing editor of The Tennessee Magazine in Nashville.
  • Joseph Millichap is emeritus professor of English at Western Kentucky University. He is the author of Robert Penn Warren: A Study of the Short Fiction and Dixie Limited: Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance. Robert Penn Warren after Audubon: The Work of Aging and the Quest for Transcendence in His Later Poetry
  • Roy Morris is the editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of five well-received books on the Civil War and post-Civil War era, including biographies of Walt Whitman and Ambrose Bierce. A former newspaper reporter, he lives in Chattanooga. Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
  • Hiroshi Motomura is an influential scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship law. Before joining the permanent faculty of UCLA Law in 2008, Professor Motomura was Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and before that Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States
  • Mary Murphy is an independent documentary director and writer whose work has appeared on PBS. For twenty years she was a producer at CBS News, where she won six Emmy Awards. She has written for Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Post, and Publishers Weekly. A native of Rhode Island, Murphy is a graduate of Wesleyan University and was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She lives in Scarborough, New York, with her husband, Bob Minzesheimer, and their two children. Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill A Mockingbird
  • Mark Mustian is an author, attorney and city commissioner. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, three children and dog. He also serves as the current chair of the Lutheran Readers Project, a nationwide effort to connect readers and writers associated with the Lutheran faith. Mustian's fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Stand Magazine, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Opium Magazine, Parting Gifts and other publications. The Gendarme
  • Diana Mutz, Ph.D. Stanford University, teaches and does research on public opinion, political psychology and mass political behavior, with a particular emphasis on political communication. At Penn she holds the Samuel A. Stouffer Chair in Political Science and Communication, and also serves as Director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative vs. Participatory Democracy
  • Sena Jeter Naslund is the author of the novels Four Spirits and Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette and a short story collection, The Disobedience of Water. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she is a winner of the Harper Lee Award; Distinguished Teaching Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville; director of the Spalding University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing program; former poet laureate of Kentucky; and editor of The Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-Lis Press. Adam and Eve
  • Kirk Neely has been a pastor and counselor for more than forty years. He is the author of two previous collections. A Good Mule is Hard to Find
  • Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a faculty member at Columbia College in Chicago. In addition to her bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, she is the author of two illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She lives in Chicago, Illinois. The Night Bookmobile
  • Devon O'Day is a graduate of Northeast Louisiana University. Currently the producer of the number one country music morning show in America, she is also the host of the syndicated Country Hitmakers which is heard in 130 markets. A successful songwriter, O'Day wrote the number one song by George Strait, "The Big One." She speaks about animal rescue to corporations and organizations around the country. My Southern Food
  • Robin Oliveira received an M.F.A. in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and was awarded the James Jones First Novel Fellowship for a work-in-progress for My Name is Mary Sutter. She lives in Seattle, Washington. My Name is Mary Sutter
  • Reza Ordoubadian is a retired professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University,fluent in English and Persian literature. Poems of Abu Said
  • Kathy Patrick is the owner of Beauty and the Book, the only bookstore/hair salon in the country, and founder of the Pulpwood Queens book clubs, with branches nationwide. The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Booksharing Guide to Life
  • Beth Pattillo is an award-winning author of eight novels. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Pattillo graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Master's Degree in Divinity. As an ordained minister, she is the executive director of FaithLeader, an organization in Nashville that works to develop a new generation of spiritual leaders. Jane Austen Ruined My Life
  • Tim Peeler lives in Hickory, North Carolina, where he directs the Learning Assistance Program at Catawba Valley Community College. He is a past winner of the Jim Harrison Award for contributions to baseball literature. This is his ninth book. Checking Out
  • Louise Penny's first Armand Gamache mystery, Still Life, won the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards; her second, A Fatal Grace, won the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel; and her third, The Cruelest Month, was #1 on the hardcover IMBA bestseller list in March 2008, and her fourth, A Rule Against Murder, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in a small village south of Montreal. The Brutal Telling
  • Jayne Ann Phillips is the author of three previous novels and two collections of widely anthologized stories. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Bunting Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Phillips is currently professor of English and director of the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Lark and Termite
  • David Pierce is the coauthor of two children's books with his wife, the popular Christian comedienne Chonda Pierce. A professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, he has published numerous short stories in mystery magazines. He lives with his family in Tennessee. Don't Let Me Go: What My Daughter Taught Me About the Journey Every Parent Must Make
  • Matthew Pitt is a graduate of Hampshire College and New York University, where he was a New York Times fellow. He lives with his wife Kimberly and their two young daughters. Attention Please Now
  • Brian Ray teaches writing at University of North Carolina-Greensboro while competing his Ph.D. in English there. A native of Marietta, Georgia, he earned his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of South Carolina in 2007. He is the winner of the inaugural South Carolina First Novel Prize. Through the Pale Door
  • Richard Reed served as an Intelligence Analyst and Korean Language interpretor in the US Army and has worked in court systems or law enforcement since 1975. He is currently the commander of the Internal Affairs Division of the Evansville, Indiana police department, and is finishing a Master's Degree in Public Service Administration. The Cruelest Cut
  • Dana Reinhardt lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two daughters. She is the author of A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, Harmless, and How to Build a House. Visit her at www.DanaReinhardt.net. The Things A Brother Knows
  • Jewell Parker Rhodes is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, including Voodoo Dreams, Season, Yellow Moon, and Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors. She is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and artistic directorof the Virginia G. PiperCenter in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ninth Ward
  • Ramona Richards is an award-winning editor, speaker, and author who has worked on more than 350 publications. Her first three Steeple Hill novels received 4.5 stars from Romantic Times magazine. Her next two novels take readers deep into the murder and mayhem of a small town in Tennessee. She lives with her daughter near Nashville, and occasionally escapes by scuba diving, hiking, dancing and going to movies and bookstores. Field of Danger
  • David Rigsbee is the author of five previous collections, including The Dissolving Island (BkMk Press, 2003). With Steven Ford Brown, he co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry (University of Virginia Press, 2001). His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, and many others. He is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Commission on the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Academy of American Poets. The Red Tower: New and Selected Poems
  • Bobby Rogers won the annual 2009 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Competition from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is a professor of English at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Paper Anniversary
  • Adam Ross lives with his wife and their two daughters in Nashville. Mr. Peanut
  • Louis Sachar is a Newbery Award-winning author and the creator of the entertaining Marvin Redpost books as well as the much-loved There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, winner of seventeen child-voted state awards. Sachar's book Holes won, in addition to the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and was made into a major motion picture. The Cardturner
  • Jon Scieszka is the creator of Trucktown and the author of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, the "Time Warp Trio" series, Caldecott Honor Book The Stinky Cheese Man, and many other books that inspire kids to want to read. He has worked as an elementary school teacher and is the founder of a literacy initiative for boys (www.guysread.com). He is the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. SPHDZ Book #1! (Spaceheadz)
  • Michael Shelden is the author of three previous biographies, including Orwell, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. For twelve years he was a Features Writer for The Daily Telegraph (London) and a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. His work has also appeared in The Shakespeare Quarterly, Victorian Studies, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches literature and writing. Mark Twain, Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years
  • W. Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of Outside and the author of the bestselling histories Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. He is a native of Memphis. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
  • Martha Simmons is the editor of Preaching on the Brink and 9.11.01: African American Leaders Respond to an American Tragedy. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present
  • Helen Simonson was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in America for the last two decades. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, DC, area. This is her first novel. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
  • Michael Sims lived in Nashville for eighteen years and now lives in western Pennsylvania. His two new books are In the Womb: Animals, the companion volume to a National Geographic Channel series, and his third literary anthology, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes. He is the author of Adam's Navel, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; Apollo's Fire: A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; and other books. He is currently writing The True Story of Charlotte's Web, about E. B. White's lifelong relationship with the natural world and how it inspired his beloved masterpiece. The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes; In the Womb: Animals
  • Eileen Sisk is a former editor at The Tennessean, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Washington Post. She lives in Kingston Springs. Buck Owens: the Biography
  • Rebecca Skloot is a science writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; Prevention; Glamour; and others. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR's Radio Lab and PBS's NOVA scienceNow, and is a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine. Her work has been anthologized in several collections, including The Best Food Writing and The Best Creative Nonfiction. She is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle, and has taught nonfiction in the creative writing programs at the University of Memphis and the University of Pittsburgh, and science journalism at New York University's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program. She blogs about science, life, and writing at Culture Dish, hosted by Seed magazine. This is her first book. For more information, visit her website at RebeccaSkloot.com. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Gary Slaughter writes critically-acclaimed, richly-detailed reminiscences of small-town life on the American home front during the last year of World War II. John Seigenthaler calls the two heroes of Slaughter's Cottonwood novels "this generation's Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn." Cottonwood Fall was a popular fiction finalist for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award. Cottonwood Winter: A Christmas Story was an adult fiction finalist for the ForeWord 2008 Book of the Year Award. Visit him on-line at www.garyslaughter.com. Cottonwood Summer, Cottonwood Fall, Cottonwood Winter. Cottonwood Spring
  • Lee Smith is the author of fifteen previous books of fiction-three collections of short stories and a dozen novels. The recipient of the 1999 Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger
  • Annie Solomon has written eight romantic suspence novels and on the 2010 Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Aawrd in romantic suspence. A former vice-president for an advertising agency, Solomon now writes full-time and lives in Nashville. www.anniesolomon.com Two Lethal Lies
  • Erica Spindler has written twenty-nine novels, including Breakneck, Last Known Victim, Copycat, Killer Takes All, See Jane Die, Dead Run and Bone Cold. Erica lives just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two sons. Blood Vines: A Novel
  • Mary Helen Stefaniak is the prize-winning author of The Turk and My Mother, Self Storage and Other Stories, and The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia. She lives in Omaha and Iowa City. The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
  • Arthur Stewart is an adjunct research professor at the University of Tennessee and until his recent retirement was an aquatic ecologist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Circle, Turtle, Ashes
  • T.J. Stiles studied history at Carleton College and Columbia University, where he was awarded a President's Fellowship. He has written for the Smithsonian and the Los Angeles Times, and is the editor of a five-volume series of anthologies of primary sources. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Laura Still is a poet and playwright who wears many hats. She works regularly as a dental hygienist, seasonally as a USTA certified tennis umpire, and daily as a mother of two. She is a contributing editor and contest screener for New Millennium Writings. A member of the Knoxville Writers' Guild, she has served as a Peter Taylor Prize screener, workshop instructor, and judged the guild's Young Writer's Poetry Prize. Her poetry appears in many anthologies, including Growing Up Girl, Knoxville Bound, and Migrants and Stowaways. Guardians
  • Patricia Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and Fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. She is coeditor of the "John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture" for the University of North Carolina Press. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Dorothy Sutton received degrees from Georgetown College, the University of Mississippi and the University of Kentucky. Teacher of English literature and creative writing for many years at Eastern Kentucky University, where her students hail mainly from Appalachia, she was awarded the school's two highest honors, the Excellence in Teaching Award and a Foundation Distinguished Professorship. Her poems have appeared in such noted anthologies as The Hudson Review, Antioch Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Backing Into Mountains
  • Alex Taylor has worked as a day laborer on tobacco farms, as a car detailer at a used automotive lot, as a sorghum peddler, as a tender of suburban lawns, at various fast food chains, and at a cigarette lighter factory. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Mississippi and now teaches at Western Kentucky University. He lives in Rosine, Kentucky. The Name of the Nearest River: Stories
  • Justin Taylor's fiction and nonfiction have been widely published in journals, magazines, and Web sites, including The Believer, The Nation, The New York Tyrant, the Brooklyn Rail, Flaunt, and NPR. A coeditor of The Agriculture Reader and a contributor to HTMLGIANT, Taylor lives in Brooklyn and is at work on his first novel. Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever
  • Fred Thompson served eight years as a United States Senator from Tennessee, and has remained active in foreign policy, fiscal and judicial affairs since his retirement from the Senate in 2003. In 2008 he sought the Republican nomination for President of the United States. First elected to the United States Senate in 1994, he served as Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, as well as a member of the Finance Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. Earlier in his career Thompson served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Tennessee, and in 1973 he served as Minority Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. Since his first on-screen appearance in 1985 Senator Thompson has appeared in numerous movies, including Die Hard II, Days of Thunder and The Hunt for Red October; he will appear in Walt Disney Picture's Secretariat, set for release in October 2010. He is also well known for his portrayal of New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on the Emmy Award-winning NBC series Law & Order. He currently hosts The Fred Thompson Show, a daily radio talk show produced by Westwood One. He resides in McLean, Virginia with his wife, Jeri, and daughter, Hayden and son, Sammy. Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances
  • Keith Thomson is a former semi-pro baseball player in France, an editorial cartoonist for Newsday, a filmmaker with a short film shown at Sundance, and a screenwriter who currently lives in Alabama. He writes on intelligence and other matters for the Huffington Post. Once a Spy
  • Kristin O'Donnell Tubb is the author of Autumn Winifre Oliver Does Things Different. She describes herself as "basically a dork who would still be going to school if they'd let me. But they won't (cause that'd just be weird), so I write instead. All of the research, none of the quizzes. It's heaven!" She lives in Tennessee with her family. Visit her online at www.KristinTubb.com. Selling Hope
  • Matthew Paul Turner is a blogger, speaker and author of The Coffeehouse Gospel, Provocative Faith, Beatitude, Relearning Jesus, and the "What You Didn't Learn from Your Parents About" series. He is the former editor of CCM magazine. He and his wife, Jessica, live in Nashville. He can be found online at www.matthewpaulturner.com and jesusneedsnewpr.blogspot.com Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost
  • Susan Underwood is director of the creative writing program at Carson Newman College. Originally from Bristol, Tennessee,she received an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where she studied under Fred Chappell. From
  • Gene Unterscheutz and his wife have traveled throughout the United States since 1997 speaking on racial unity and sharing their stories about meeting people of color who helped them understand racial conditioning. They have been married for thirty-eight years and live most of the time on the road in their RV. Stories of Racial Healing
  • Phyllis Unterscheutz and her husband have traveled throughout the United States since 1997 speaking on racial unity and sharing their stories about meeting people of color who helped them understand racial conditioning. They have been married for thirty-eight years and live most of the time on the road in their RV. Stories of Racial Healing
  • Jay Varner is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington where he earned his M.F.A. in creative nonfiction. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is his first book.
  • Maggi Britton Vaughn has been Poet Laureate of Tennessee for more than fifteen years. She is the author of eleven books, and has received among other honors the Mark Twain Fellowship from Elmira College and the Literary Award from the Germantown Arts Alliance. She received the Governor's Award as Outstanding Tennessean in 2003. Her poems have been widely published and appeared on National Public Radio and public television. She devotes much of her time to traveling across the state, sharing her poetry with students. You're Laughing Ain't Ya, God?
  • Jody Wallace is a member of the Music City Romance Writers Association. Survival of the Fairest
  • Max Watman is the author of Race Day, which was an editors' choice in The New York Times Book Review. He was the horse racing correspondent for the New York Sun and has written for various publications on books, music, food, and drink. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and son. Chasing the White Dog
  • Brad Watson teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His first collection, Last Days of the Dog-Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, The Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories
  • Deborah Wiles is the author of picture books and novels for young readers including Each Little Bird That Sings (a National Book Award Finalist), and Countdown, book one of "The Sixties Trilogy: Three novels of the 1960s for young readers." She taught "Writing Techniques for Teachers" at Towson University and has taught in the M.F.A. in Writing programs at Lesley Univeristy and Vermont College. She has taught personal narrative writing for many years, to children and adults. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Countdown
  • Mo Willems likes writing and drawing funny books such as the Caldecott Honor Books Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity. He also had fun creating favorites like the Elephant and Piggie series, which won two Geisel Medals and the New York Times bestselling "Cat the Cat" series. Before making books, Mo was a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he won six Emmy Awards. Mo lives with his family in Massachusettes, where he is currently working on his next book, Amanda And Her Alligator. Knuffle Bunny Free
  • W. Ridley Wills is a past president of the Tennessee Historical Society and a former board member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. His grandparents' south Nashville estate became the third official, and current, executive residence of Tennessee governors and their families.
  • Amy Lyles Wilson holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi and a master's degree in theological studies from Vanderbilt University. She is the manager of social media for Upper Room Books, writes the "Her Spirit" column and blog for Her Nashville magazine, and leads writing workshops. Bless Your Heart—Saving the World One Covered Dish at a Time
  • Sally Wolff teaches southern literature at Emory University, where she has also served as associate dean and assistant vice-president. She is the author of Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary and Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmie Faulkner and Others and coeditor of Southern Mothers: Fact and Fiction in Southern Women's Writing. Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary
  • George Zepp is a locally renowned historian in Nashville, where he penned the local history column "Learn Nashville," which appeared in the Tennessean for eight years. Zepp's career in journalism spanned thirty-three years, the majority of which were spent at the Tennessean. Hidden History of Nashville

If you would like to be considered for the 2011 Southern Festival of Books please send in two copies (galleys or manuscripts are fine) of the book for which you would like to come, a press kit and an author bio between January 1–June 1, 2011 to:

Humanities Tennessee
Attn: Program Committee
306 Gay Street, Suite 306
Nashville, TN 37201

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