Kimberly Ellen Anderson is a contributing editor of New Southerner magazine, a literary e-zine that focuses on Southern people, issues and stories, as well as environmental stewardship. She lives in Louisville, Ky., with her husband, Jim, and sons, James and Parker. |
For nearly four years Michael Jackman broadcast radio essays every Friday morning on Louisville’s WFPL 89.3 FM, and on Kentucky Public Radio. He teaches on the writing faculty at Indiana University Southeast English Dept. and serves on the board of the InKY Reading Series. One of his favorite accomplishments was to have performed stories, and sometimes written scripts, for folk singer John Gage’s live radio show Kentucky Homefront. Michael was a student of acclaimed writer and Kentucky Poet-Laureate Sena Naslund, who now runs the Spalding Low-Residency MFA Program. Michael directs the Writers Workshop Project. |
A native of Connecticut, D. Cameron Lawrence is a print and broadcast journalist in Louisville. For many years, she created, produced and hosted programs such as Down to Earth and State of Affairs for WFPL-FM, the Louisville NPR-affiliate. Cameron’s essays and features have appeared in The Washington Post, The Hartford Courant, Ladies’ Home Journal, New Southerner, the Lexington Herald-Leader and others, and for several years, she has covered environmental issues for Louisville Magazine. With her husband and frequent collaborator John Gregory, Cameron has received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. |
Maegen Neal is an English/Environmental Geoscience major at IU Southeast. Her works have been published by the IUS Review and New Southerner magazine. Two of her memoirs, “Sweet Rain,” and “Food, Love, and Ms. Fannie Neal” were winners in the 2008 IUS Writing Contest. |
Marianne Worthington is author of a poetry chapbook, Larger Bodies Than Mine (Finishing Line Press, 2006) and editor of the Motif anthology series from MotesBooks. She is poetry editor for both Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine and the new online journal Still: Literature of the Mountain South. She lives in Williamsburg, Ky. |
Leigh Ann Yost is a singer-songwriter living and working in Louisville, KY. She’s opened for national acts like Joe Ely, Jessica Lea-Mayfield, and even Quiet Riot, and gets regular airplay on Louisville’s NPR station, 91.9 WFPK. When she isn’t performing, writing, or working, she’s happily at home in the Highlands with her 2 sons, McLain and Sam, husband, Martin, and dog, Tabitha. (oh, and I do have a Journalism degree from UNC, Chapel Hill, if it’s of interest–thought it might be since it’s a writers thing!!) |