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James C. Abbot, Jr. James C. Abbot Jr. is a classicist who taught in higher and secondary education for more than three decades. He holds doctoral and bachelor’s degrees in Classics from the University of North...
A.K.A. Adam A.K.M. Adam teaches New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is author of What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism.
Catherine Albanese Catherine Albanese earned her Ph.D. in American religious history from the University of Chicago 1972.
Peter Alden Peter Alden followed Thoreau's trails and bird notes growing up in Concord, where he still lives. He has authored fifteen bird/nature/travel books and has led wildlife tours to more than 100...
Dan A. Aldridge Jr. Dan A. Aldridge, Jr. is a semi-retired business consultant who currently serves as vice president of the Friends of Georgia Libraries. He received a BS degree in Commerce from the University of...
Russell F. Aldwinckle
Galadrielle Allman
Rebecca Alpert Rebecca Alpert is professor of Religion and senior associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University where she teaches courses on Sports and Society and Religion and Sports. Her...
David E. Alsobrook David Ernest Alsobrook was born in Eufaula, Alabama, and grew up in Mobile. He completed his formal education at Auburn University (PhD) and West Virginia University (MA). His primary historical...
David E. Alsobrook David E. Alsobrook, a self-styled "recovering archivist," holds degrees from Auburn University and West Virginia University. His memoir evolved from his experience at the Alabama Department of...
Lisa Alther Lisa Alther was born in 1944 in Kingsport, Tennessee. She has published six novels, one novella, a memoir, and a new narrative history of the Hatfields and the McCoys, entitled Blood Feud (2012.)...
Christopher J. Anderson Christopher J. Anderson is Methodist LIbrarian at Drew University.
Fred Anderson Fred Anderson is the executive director emeritus of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society and the Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies at the University of Richmond. He is a graduate of Berry...
Kristine F. Anderson Kristine F. Anderson earned a PhD in Communicative Arts from Georgia State University. She has worked as a freelance writer for national newspapers and magazines and taught high school English. She...
Mary Kay Andrews
J. William Angell
Gregory Ariail Gregory Ariail, a native of Buford, Georgia, earned graduate degrees from Oxford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, where he currently teaches. In...
Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle
David Armand David Armand was born and raised in Louisiana. From 2017-2019, he served as writer-in-residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he is currently assistant professor of Creative Writing....
Amy Branam Armiento Amy Branam Armiento is professor of English at Frostburg State University and immediate past president of the Poe Studies Association. She holds a PhD in English from Marquette University. Many of...
Gene Asher
Raymond L. Atkins Raymond L. Atkins resides in Rome, Georgia, where he is an instructor of English at Georgia Northwestern Technical College. His first novel, The Front Porch Prophet, was released in 2008 and...
Raymond L. Atkins Raymond L. Atkins resides in Rome, Georgia, where he is an instructor of English at Georgia Northwestern Technical College. Author of four novels, his first, FRONT PORCH PROPHET, won the 2008...
Raymond L. Atkins Raymond L. Atkins teaches English at Georgia Northwestern Technical College and Creative Writing at Reinhardt University. He is the author of four award-winning novels: THE FRONT PORCH PROPHET,...
Axel
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James Bagwell James E. Bagwell is associate professor of history at Georgia Southwestern State University. He has written The History of Sumter County and The History of Plains Mayors - 1997
Eric Bain-Selbo
Wayne Ballard Wayne Ballard earned his Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is now Assistant Professor of Religion at Campbell University. He is also the author of The Divinity...
Thomas G. Bandy Thomas G. Bandy is an internationally recognized consultant, leadership coach, and conference speaker for Christian organizations and faith-based non-profits. He is a past president and board...
Banks
Eileen Barker
Marcellus Chandler Barksdale Marcellus Chandler Barksdale is a graduate of Morehouse College, Atlanta University, and Duke University. He began his teaching career in the public schools of Gainesville, Georgia. Barksdale has...
Margaret Anne Barnes Margaret Anne Barnes was the award winning author of A Buzzard Is My Best Friend and Murder in Coweta County, which went on to be released as a CBS made for television Movie-of-the-Week starring...
Johnathon Scott Barrett Johnathon Scott Barrett is a seventh-generation Georgian, and grew up amongst a family that placed high value on fresh, farm-to-table food. He has held onto those roots and become a renowned cook...
Johnathon Scott Barrett Johnathon Scott Barrett is a seventh-generation Georgian who has a deep appreciation for the history, foodways, and culture of the South. A nonprofit executive and CPA, Barrett is also a talented...
Johnathon Scott Barrett Johnathon Scott Barrett is a seventh-generation Georgian, and grew up amongst a family that placed high value on fresh, farm-to-table food. He held onto those roots and became a renowned cook and...
Lee C. Barrett Lee C. Barrett is the author and editor of several books and articles dealing with the work of Kierkegaard, including EROS AND SELF-EMPTYING: INTERSECTIONS OF AUGUSTINE AND KIERKEGAARD, PILLARS OF...
John Barrington John Barrington is professor of History at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Born in New York City, he completed his undergraduate degree at Oxford University and his PhD in Colonial...
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw Jennifer Garcia Bashaw is assistant professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry at Campbell University. She is the author of a forthcoming book on scapegoats and the Gospels.
Jack Bass Jack Bass is professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston.
Luigi Marco Bassani Luigi Marco Bassani, born in Chicago, and educated mostly in Italy and in the United States, is professor of History of Political Theory at the University of Milan, Italy. Though he has published...
Joseph Bathanti Joseph Bathanti is the poet laureate of North Carolina and professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University. He is the author of two novels, a collection of stories, and eight books of...
Bauman
Jack B. Bedell Jack B. Bedell is professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collections are ELLIPTIC...
Jack B. Bedell Jack B. Bedell is professor of English and coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press....
Jack B. Bedell Jack B. Bedell is professor of English and coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also serves as editor for Louisiana Literature and director of the Louisiana...
Jack B. Bedell Jack B. Bedell is professor of English and coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press....
John C. Bell, Jr.
Charles K. Bellinger Charles K. Bellinger is associate professor of Theology and Ethics at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. He is author of THE GENEALOGY OF VIOLENCE: REFLECTIONS OF CREATION,...
Thomas Peter Bennett Thomas Peter Bennett, a Florida native, is the author of many articles and books about topics now synthesized in FLORIDA EXPLORED: THE PHILADELPHIA CONNECTION IN BARTRAM'S TRACKS, which is based on...
Biddle
Daniel Philip Bigman Daniel Bigman received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Georgia with a focus on archaeological geophysics applied to Native American sites in the southeastern United States. He is the...
Chris Birkett Chris Birkett is visiting lecturer in Journalism at City, University of London. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MA in American Studies and...
Christopher Blake In an academic career spanning three decades and two continents, Christopher Blake has served as both faculty and administrator in secondary and post-secondary institutions. An Oxford graduate, he...
Christopher Blake Christopher Blake is president of Middle Georgia State University. Previously he held senior administrative and faculty positions in the USA at Mount Mercy University, Mount St. Mary's University,...
Bleckley
Linda Bledsoe A native of Virginia, Linda Bledsoe worked for thirty-three years as a family nurse practitioner. Always passionate about writing, she has copublished articles in various medical journals. Bledsoe...
Stephen Bluestone Stephen Bluestone was born in New York City. His poems have received numerous awards, among them the Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and second prize in the Robert Penn...
Stephen Bluestone Stephen Bluestone taught English and film in the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer University for many years and now lives and works in New York City, where he was born. His volumes THE LAUGHING...
Mary Bohlen Throughout the seasons, Southern writer and author Mary Bohlen demonstrates authentic colonial campfire and hearth cooking at Revolutionary War reenactment sites and living history museums. She has...
David Bolotin David Bolotin is a retired teacher from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of PLATO'S DIALOGUE ON FRIENDSHIP: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE LYSIS and AN APPROACH TO ARISTOTLE'S...
David Bolotin David Bolotin is a retired teacher from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of PLATO'S DIALOGUE ON FRIENDSHIP: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE LYSIS and AN APPROACH TO ARISTOTLE'S...
David Bolotin David Bolotin is a retired teacher from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of PLATO'S DIALOGUE ON FRIENDSHIP and AN APPROACH TO ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICS. He is the translator...
David Bolotin David Bolotin is a retired teacher from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of PLATO'S DIALOGUE ON FRIENDSHIP and AN APPROACH TO ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICS. He is the translator...
Adrienne Moore Bond Adrienne Moore Bond was associate professor of English at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Her poetry has appeared in Southern Review, the Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, Tipularia, and the...
Gerald L. Borchert Gerald L. Borchert (senior professor at Carson Newman and thesis director at the Institute for Worship Studies) was a Canadian lawyer who holds a Princeton PhD in New Testament and did...
David Bottoms David Bottoms holds the Amos Distinguished Chair in English Letters at Georgia State University and served as Poet Laureate of Georgia for twelve years. His first book, SHOOTING RATS AT THE BIBB...
Arlynda Lee Boyer Arlynda Boyer, a native of Virginia, has been a race fan most of her life and a practicing Buddhist for more than ten years. She has been a guest commentator on NPR, a contestant on Jeopardy!, and...
William H. Brackney WILLIAM H. BRACKNEY is the Dr. Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College. Previously, he has been the director of Baptist Studies at...
William H. Brackney
William H. Brackney
William H. Brackney William H. Brackney is Distinguished M.R. Cherry Professor Emeritus of Christian Thought and Ethics at Acadia University, and the Director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies....
William H. Brackney
William H. Brackney William H. Brackney is Distinguished M.R. Cherry Professor Emeritus of Christian Thought and Ethics at Acadia University, and Director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies....
William H. Brackney William H. Brackney is Distinguished M.R. Cherry Professor Emeritus of Christian Thought and Ethics at Acadia University, and the Director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies....
William H. Brackney William H. Brackney (PhD Temple University) is Pioneer MacDonald Professor of Baptist Theology and Ethics at Carey Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Millard R. Cherry...
William H. Brackney
William H. Brackney
William H. Brackney
William H. Brackney William H. Brackney (1948-2022) was Distinguished M.R. Cherry Professor Emeritus of Christian Thought and Ethics at Acadia University, and director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist...
William H. Brackney
Kathy A. Bradley Kathy A. Bradley lives and writes in Bulloch County, Georgia. She is the author of BREATHING AND WALKING AROUND: MEDITATIONS ON A LIFE, which received the Will D. Campbell Award for Creative...
Kathy A. Bradley Kathy A. Bradley writes from a farm in the coastal plain of South Georgia where she has lived for enough years as to no longer be bothered by the dirt roads. She has worked as a real estate and...
Julie Wallace Bragg Julie Bragg has taught thousands through her home-based Swim School in Macon, Georgia. After Brax and Taylor, two of her four children, died tragically during a road trip in 1999, the brothers'...
William Harris Bragg William Harris Bragg, a native Georgian, is lecturer in History and director of the Center for Georgia Studies at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Bragg has...
William Harris Bragg William Harris Bragg taught history at Georgia College in Milledgeville for many years before retiring as its director of the Center for Georgia Studies. He has received the Georgia Historical...
William Harris Bragg In more than forty years of teaching and writing Southern history, William Harris Bragg has many times been awarded for distinguished contributions to his field. In American military history his...
Perry C. Bramlett Perry C. Bramlett is the author of C. S. Lewis: Life at the Center, Touring C. S. Lewis’ Ireland and England and was a contributor to the best-selling C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia. He is the...
Michael C. Braswell Michael C. Braswell is a former prison psychologist for the Georgia Department of Corrections. He is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at East Tennessee State...
Brauer
Herb Bridges Herb Bridges studied History at the University of Georgia. He is the world’s leading authority on Gone With the Wind and his collection of items associated with the publication and filming of the...
John David Briley
John W. Brinsfield, Jr. John W. Brinsfield, Jr. is a retired Army chaplain and an adjunct professor at Wesley Theological Seminary. Previously he served as an assistant professor in the History department at West Point,...
Dr. John W. Brinsfield, Jr. Dr. John Wesley Brinsfield is the Chaplain Corps historian at the Army Chaplain School, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. He has degrees from Vanderbilt, Emory, Yale, and Drew universities and was a...
Bromley
Clifford Brooks Clifford Brooks is a poet, teacher, and founder of The Southern Collective Experience, a cooperative of writers, musicians, and visual artists. Author of THE DRAW OF BROKEN EYES & WHIRLING...
F. Erik Brooks F. Erik Brooks is professor and chair of the department of African American Studies at Western Illinois University. He previously taught Political Science and Public Administration at Georgia...
Catharine Savage Brosman Catharine Savage Brosman, who lives in Houston, is professor emerita of French at Tulane University and honorary research professor at the University of Sheffield (England). She currently serves as...
Catharine Savage Brosman Catharine Savage Brosman, who lives in Houston, is professor emerita of French at Tulane University and honorary research professor at the University of Sheffield (England). She is well known in...
Catharine Savage Brosman Catharine Savage Brosman, professor emerita of French at Tulane University, is prominent in the Republic of Letters as an essayist, scholar in French and American literature, and, foremost, poet....
Guy Story Brown Guy Story Brown is director of The Straight Gate, a 501c3 residential prison aftercare and substance abuse recovery project in Texas. His PhD is in political philosophy and Western literature from...
Peter C. Brown Peter C. Brown taught philosophy and Great Books for over four decades at Mercer University. With a PhD from Emory University, his research interests are in ethics, religion and literature, and...
R. Harold Brown R. Harold Brown is professor emeritus of Crop and Soil Sciences at the University of Georgia. He is the author of over 120 refereed journal articles and twelve book chapters.
Walter Brueggemann
Larry D. Brumley Larry D. Brumley is senior vice president for Marketing Communications and chief of staff at Mercer University.
Bryan
Mary Anna Bryan Mary Anna Bryan grew up near Augusta, Georgia, where her weekly column, “Teen Times,” appeared in The Augusta Chronicle. She graduated from Agnes Scott College and completed graduate work at The...
Bryant
Bryant G. McLeod Bryan is professor of Christian ethics at wake Forest and is the author of several books, inclusing Dissenter in the Baptist Southland.
James C. Bryant
Mike Bunn Mike Bunn is a public historian who has spent his entire career researching and writing about the history of the American South. A graduate of the University of Alabama, he has held a variety of...
Fritz Buri
Daniel L. Buttry Daniel L. Buttry is the global consultant for Peace and Justice for International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches. Raised in a military family, Buttry became a peace activist from...
James P. Byrd, Jr.
James P. Byrd James P. Byrd is professor of American Religious History, Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair of Wesleyan Studies, and associate dean for Graduate Education and Research at Vanderbilt University Divinity...
Olivia deBelle Byrd Olivia deBelle Byrd is the third generation of her family to call Panama City, Florida, home where she resides with her husband, Tommy. Byrd has a penchant for turning ordinary happenings into...
Travis Byrd Travis Byrd served as the graduate assistant of the Old Governor’s Mansion and completed work on his MA degree in 2012.
Joseph P. Byrd IV Joseph P. Byrd IV retired from the United Parcel Service following a career in marketing research and eight years as a college professor. Born in Savannah, he is a seventh-generation Georgian with...
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Cabaniss
Casey Cagle Casey Cagle is a seventh-generation Georgian who was born and raised in Hall County, and presently serves as Georgia’s 11th Lieutenant Governor. After starting his first business at the age of 21,...
Charles E. Campbell Charles E. Campbell attended Emory University and the University of Georgia. In 1965, at age twenty-three, he accepted a position on the staff of United States senator Richard B. Russell in...
Will D. Campbell
Diane Michael Cantor Diane Michael Cantor was born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. At Sarah Lawrence College, she studied with writer Grace Paley and poet Jane Cooper. Her plays have been performed in Georgia, and for...
Kevin Cantwell Kevin Cantwell has published two books of poems, Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye (2002) and One of Those Russian Novels (2009). His poems have appeared in Paris Review, New Republic,...
Kevin Cantwell Kevin Cantwell has published poems in The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Irish Pages, Metre, Commonweal, Shenandoah, and Five Points, for which he was winner of the James Dickey Poetry...
Carey
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as thirty-ninth President of the United States. He and his wife, Rosalynn, founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization that prevents and...
Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as thirty-ninth President of the United States. He and his wife, Rosalynn, founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization that prevents and...
Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter
Lawrence E. Carter, Sr.
Cashin Edward J. Cashin is chairman of the department of history, political science, and philosophy at Augusta College, where he has taught since 1969.
Marion Castleberry Marion Castleberry is professor of Theatre Arts at Baylor University where he teaches graduate courses in directing and performance theory. He holds a PhD in Theatre from Louisiana State...
M. Todd Cathey M. Todd Cathey has been a student of the American Civil War for over thirty years. His primary area of interest is the common soldier in the Western Theater. Cathey holds several advanced degrees...
M. Todd Cathey M. Todd Cathey has been a student of the Civil War for over thirty years. Growing up in Middle Tennessee, his interest in the Civil War developed at an early age. His primary focus is the common...
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is the author of the memoir, THE GOING AND GOODBYE (Platypus Press), the inspirational little book, 52 THINGS I WISH I COULD HAVE TOLD MYSELF WHEN I WAS 17 (Cimarron Books),...
Chung-Yan Joyce Chan Chung-Yan Joyce Chan is currently associate professor of Church History, the director of the North American Chinese Church Ministry Program at Carey Theological College, and the codirector for the...
Chance
João B. Chaves João B. Chaves is assistant director for Programming at the Hispanic Theological Initiative, housed at Princeton Theological Seminary. He holds an MTS from George W. Truett Theological Seminary and...
Kelly Cherry Kelly Cherry is the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The recipient of numerous honors and...
Glenn F. Chesnut Glenn F. Chesnut is professor of history and religious studies at Indiana University in South Bend where he has taught since 1970, Professor Chesnut attended Southern Methodist University and...
Amy L. Chilton Amy L. Chilton is visiting assistant professor of Religion at Wingate University in North Carolina and adjunct professor of Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in California. She is an ordained...
Anthony L. Chute Anthony L. Chute is associate dean of the School of Christian Ministries and associate professor of Church History at California Baptist University in Riverside, California. He received his PhD in...
E. Culpepper Clark E. Culpepper Clark is dean emeritus of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. A historian of the South since the Civil War, his published works have focused on the New...
E. Culpepper Clark E. Culpepper Clark is dean and professor emeritus of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and also of the College of Communication and...
Frank E. Clark Frank E. Clark is the cofounder and has been the curator of the Bell Research Center in Cumming, Georgia, since its inception in 2004. The Center holds over 16,000 books, manuscripts, and artifacts...
Clarke
G. Wayne Clough Growing up in rural South Georgia, G. Wayne Clough was among the first in his family to attend college. Graduating from Georgia Tech he pursued an academic career, eventually becoming the first...
Jamie H. Cockfield Jamie H. Cockfield is professor emeritus of History at Mercer University after serving on the faculty since 1972. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he holds a BA and MA in History from the...
Richard Coffman
Richard M. Coffman Richard M. Coffman graduated from Ohio State University, the University of Denver, and the University of South Carolina. He received the B.A., M.A., MEd. and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Coffman is a career...
Evan L. Colford Evan L. Colford is an ordained minister with the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada. He is currently serving as a military chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces. With William H. Brackney, he...
Donald E. Collins Donald E. Collins was educated at Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, and Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. He was a minister in the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the...
Randall G. Colton Randall G. Colton is professor of Philosophy at Cardinal Glennon College of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis. He holds an MA in philosophy from Baylor University and a PhD from Saint Louis...
Daniel Cone Daniel Cone received an MA degree from the University of West Georgia, is a member of the Society of Civil War Historians and the Atlanta Civil War Round Table, and currently works at the Atlanta...
Bill Connell Navy veteran Bill Connell (1948-2023) was a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was best known as a professional live and studio drummer, music publisher, music and video producer, and director for...
Walter H. Conser Jr.
Conyers
James F. Cook James F. Cook (Professor of History Emeritus, Floyd College) is the author of two other books published by Mercer University Press, Carl Sanders: Spokesman for the New South, and Carl Vinson:...
Jackie K. Cooper Jackie K. cooper is the author of six books of memoirs/short stories. These books concern his life in the South from a childhood in Clinton, South Carolina, to his present life in Georgia. Each...
Jackie K. Cooper Jackie K. Cooper is the author of seven books. As a movie and book critic his reviews can be found online on his YouTube channel and social media pages. Cooper is a member of the Broadcast Film...
John Charles Cooper
Terry D. Cooper Terry Cooper (EdD, PhD), holds doctorates from Vanderbilt University and St. Louis University and is currently a candidate at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. The...
Copeland
Vincent Coppola Vincent Coppola is a former Newsweek correspondent and award-winning writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, Talk, Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, Worth, Atlanta, Georgia Trend, and other...
Vincent Coppola Vincent Coppola has written five non-fiction books, THE SICILIAN JUDGE, AN AMERICAN HERO, UNEASY WARRIORS, DRAGONS OF GOD, CHARLIE, and THE BIG CASINO. He co-wrote GRANDFATHERED IN with oncologist...
Stephen Corey Stephen Corey is the author of four full-length poetry collections, among them THERE IS NO FINISHED WORLD (White Pine Press), and six chapbooks. His poems and essays have appeared in dozens of...
Cosby
Cosgrove
Cosner
Elizabeth Cox Elizabeth Cox is the author of novels, short stories, and poetry. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, and others. Her short stories have...
Elizabeth Barks Cox Elizabeth Cox has published five novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of poetry. She has won the North Carolina Fiction Award, the Lillian Smith Award for a novel, and in 2013 she was...
Steven Cox Steven Cox is a professor and the curator of the Special Collections at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. A native of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Cox holds BSE and MED degrees from the...
Kenneth M. Craig, Jr. Kenneth M. Craig, Jr. is an associate professor in the Humanities Division at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Previously he held the E. Lee Oliver Fagan Chair of Bible and...
Dale Cramer Dale Cramer began writing in his forties, and over the last decade has penned seven novels, winning numerous awards and a listing among Publishers Weekly & Best Books of the Year. He lives in...
Robert W. Crapps
William Creasy Dr. Creasy's work on the Imitation of Christ has become the standard translation of this spiritual classic, bringing it to live for a new generatiobn of readers.
Crenshaw
Joseph Crespino
Jan Horne Crocker Jan Horne Crocker (photography curator) is director of Photography for Marketing Communications at Mercer University.
David Crowe David Crowe is professor of English at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. A graduate of Luther College and the University of Minnesota, he is a Fulbright Scholar (Norway), and has...
Edward R. Crowther A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Edward R. Crowther is professor of History at Adams State University. He is the author of Southern Evangelicals and the Coming of the Civil War, along with...
Culbertson
K Scott Culpepper K. Scott Culpepper currently serves as assistant professor of History at Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. He received his education from Baylor University (Ph.D.), Northwestern State...
Scott Ross Cunningham Scott Ross Cunningham is assistant director for Research Operations at The Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism at Texas Tech University. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Texas Tech University and...
Bill Curry In six decades, Bill Curry has experienced virtually every scenario football provides, and relishes the opportunity to share its vivid personalities, painful life lessons, and Leadership secrets....
Carolyn Newton Curry Carolyn Curry holds a BA in English from Agnes Scott College and MA and PhD degrees in History from Georgia State University. She has taught at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta and The University...
Carolyn Newton Curry Carolyn Newton Curry is an award-winning author, historian, and founder of the nonprofit Women Alone Together®. She is the author of SUFFER AND GROW STRONG which won Curry a Georgia Author of the...
Susan Cushman Susan Cushman was codirector of the 2013 and 2010 Creative Nonfiction conferences in Oxford, Mississippi, and director of the 2011 Memphis Creative Nonfiction workshop. She is the author of TANGLES...
Cutsinger
George P. Cuttino
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Laura Dabundo Laura Dabundo is professor of English and coordinator of Religious Studies at Kennesaw State University. She is editor of The Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780–1830s and Jane...
Dorinda G. Dallmeyer Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, native of Macon, Georgia, has worked in the fields of environmental science, international law, and environmental ethics. With other regional nature writers, she created the...
Dr. Martin L. Dalton Martin L. Dalton, Jr., graduated Auburn University with a B.S. degree in 1953. He received his medical education at the Medical College of Alabama (now the University of Alabama at Birmingham...
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Christian Danz Christian Danz is professor of Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna. He studied Protestant Theology at the University of Jena...
Lesley Dauer Lesley Dauer received degrees from Middlebury, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Harvard. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Boulevard, Grand Street and Poetry, and...
Jack Davis
Matthew S. Davis Matthew S. Davis is the curator of the Old Governor’s Mansion and has served as an adjunct professor at Georgia College and State University, Georgia Military College, and Macon State College. He...
Reginald Davis Reginald F. Davis was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Shelby State Community College in Memphis (A.S.), Incarnate Word College in San Antonio(B.A.), Colgate Rochester Divinity School...
Robert S. Davis
Stephen Davis Stephen Davis has lived in Atlanta, Georgia, most of his life, earning degrees from Emory University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book, ATLANTA WILL FALL: SHERMAN, JOE...
Stephen Davis Stephen Davis of Cumming, Georgia, is author of four books on the Atlanta Campaign, including WHAT THE YANKEES DID TO US: SHERMAN'S BOMBARDMENT AND WRECKING OF ATLANTA (2012). He is currently book...
Stephen Davis Stephen Davis is a nationally-known author and recognized expert on the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. This is his seventh book on the subject. He has also written hundreds of articles for both...
Stephen Davis Stephen Davis of Cumming, Georgia, is author of ten books on the Civil War, most of which treat the Atlanta Campaign. His two recent volumes on Confederate General John Bell Hood have won several...
Dominic Day Dominic Day is a Middle Georgia native and a geospatial and cultural resource professional. Day completed studies in anthropology at Georgia State University and geographic information science at...
DeClaisse
Yi Deng Yi Deng is associate professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. Her teaching and research interests include ethics, social and political philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and global...
John K. Derden John K. Derden, born into a military family, led a peripatetic childhood during his elementary and secondary school years, living in France, Germany, Oklahoma, Georgia, Hawaii, and Kentucky, before...
Andrew Derr Andrew Derr is Vanderbilt University’s 1992 recipient of the Fred Russell- Grantland Rice TRA Sportswriting Scholarship. A part-time freelance journalist since graduating in 1996, he lives in...
Charles W. Deweese Charles W. Deweese retired in 2009 as executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society in Atlanta, Georgia, a position he had held since 1999. Previously, he served on the staffs of...
Christopher Dickey
James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey (1923–1997) was an American poet, novelist and essayist. Appointed the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966, he also received the Order of the...
Diefenthal
Philip D. Dillard Philip D. Dillard is professor of History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Prior to entering academe, he served as an infantry officer in the United States Army including...
Quinton H. Dixie
Thomas P. Dixon Thomas P. Dixon is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Campbell University. He is the author of various articles on Paul and Martin Luther King Jr.
E. Jane Doering E. Jane Doering is director emerita of the Teachers as Scholars Program at the University of Notre Dame where she taught French Language and Literature. She holds degrees from Northwestern...
Kathryn C. Dolan Kathryn C. Dolan is professor of English at Missouri University of Science and Technology, publishing articles on Thoreau in HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN CONTEXT and REDISCOVERING THE MAINE WOODS. She...
Vincent Joseph Dooley Marine veteran, football coaching legend, athletic director, and sports personality, Vincent Joseph Dooley serves as chairman of the Georgia Historical Society and as a Trustee of the Civil War...
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick L. Downing Frederick L. Downing is professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and department head at Valdosta State University. His previous books, TO SEE THE PROMISED LAND: THE FAITH PILGRIMAGE OF MARTIN...
Shari L. Dragovich Shari L. Dragovich is a farm-raised Midwesterner and educator, transplanted in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She has been writing articles about her community for ten years, with a growing...
William S. Duffey, Jr. Judge William S. Duffey, Jr. served on the federal bench, as a United States Attorney, as a Deputy Independent Counsel, and as a partner at King & Spalding. He holds a JD from the University of...
John D. Duncan John D. Duncan, a twelfth-generation Charlestonian, came to Savannah to teach history at what later became Armstrong State University. He and his wife have shared three passions: the restoration of...
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Lee C. Dunn Lee C. Dunn has researched and spoken about Southern history, garden and landscape history, and genealogy for more than twenty years. She has been deeply involved in promoting the preservation and...
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Riggins R. Earl Jr. Riggins R. Earl, Jr., former professor of Ethics and Theology at the Interdenominational Theological Center earned a PhD in Social Ethics from Vanderbilt University. His previous books include DARK...
Joe Early, Jr. Joe Early Jr., is an assistant professor of Religion at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky. He is the author of A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook, A Handbook of Texas...
Mark Ellingsen Mark Ellingsen is a professor on the faculty of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Author of twenty-three books and more than 400 articles, and the subject of numerous...
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Sam Davis Elliott The Confederate Soldier’s Pocket Manual of Devotions Including Balm for the Weary and the Wounded Charles Todd Quintard: foreword by CH (COL) William O. Nisbet, Jr.; introduction by Sam Davis...
Fay Elanor Ellwood Fay Elanor Ellwood is professor of English Literature at Hope International University. She holds a PhD in English and Religion from Claremont Graduate University, an MA in Hebrew Bible and New...
Adam C. English
Adam C. English Adam C. English is chair of Christian Studies and professor of Theology and Philosophy at Campbell University. He has authored such books as CHRISTMAS and THEOLOGY REMIXED.
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John D. Inscore Essick John D. Inscore Essick (PhD Baylor University) is associate professor of Church History and director of the Rural Ministry Program at Baptist Seminary of Kentucky. He is the author of THOMAS...
Martha M. Ezzard Martha M. Ezzard is a lawyer, writer (award-winning writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), and farm winery owner, but she has always been a passionate lover of the outdoors. The Ezzards...
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John Fair John Fair, a native of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was educated at Juniata College (B.A.), Wake Forest University (M.A.), and Duke University (Ph.D.). He held teaching appointments in Pennsylvania,...
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James O. Farmer Jr. James O. Farmer Jr. is the June Rainsford Henderson Chair in Southern and Local History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina Aiken. His book, THE METAPHYSICAL CONFEDERACY: JAMES HENLEY...
Jeff Fields
David Fillingim David Fillingim is the author of Redneck Liberation: Country Music as Theology and Extreme Virtues: Living on the Prophetic Edge, and editor, with Michael Graves, of More than Precious Memories:...
Steven Fink Steven Fink is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He received a PhD in Religious Studies from The University of Iowa. Fink’s main areas of...
Nathan A. Finn
Garry D. Fisher Garry D. Fisher is a life-long student of the American Civil War. His first book, REBEL CORNBREAD AND YANKEE COFFEE, was featured at the Museum of the Confederacy’s first-ever book fair in 2005. He...
Sibley Fleming Sibley Fleming is an award-winning author of several books including CELESTINE SIBLEY: A GRANDDAUGHTER'S REMINISCENCE and HOW TO ROCK YOUR BABY. She previously served as editor-in-chief of Bisnow...
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Hallie Foote
Dr. Pearl Ford Pearl K. Ford (PhD) is an assistant professor of Political Science and African-American Studies at the University of Arkansas.
Craig A. Forney Craig A. Forney holds a MA in Religious Studies and a Ph.D. in American Religious History from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses in American Religions, Comparative Religion, and...
John D. Fowler John D. Fowler is the B. J. and Dicksie Bandy Chair of History at Dalton State College. He is the author several books and articles including Mountaineers in Gray: The Story of the Nineteenth...
David B. Freeman
Theodore Albert Fuller Colonel Theodore Albert Fuller (1909–1990) was a graduate of Texas A&M, served in the US Army, then transitioned to the US Air Force. Fuller served on Gen. Bradley's 12th Army Group staff, helped...
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Bill & Gloria Gaither
Tammy Galloway Tammy Harden Galloway is a graduate of Georgia State University. She is the author of the Inman Family: An Atlanta Family from Reconstruction to World War I (Mercer University Pres, 2002).
Susie Gardner Susie Gardner was named Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Mercer University in 2010. With more than 200 Division I wins to her resume, she has coached college basketball for over twenty-five years....
James Leo Garrett James Leo Garrett, a Baptist theological educator for more than half a century, taught in three institutions: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and...
Mary A. H. Gay Mary A. H. Gay was a Georgia author of poetry and prose. Gay lived for most of her life in Decatur in a house that is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After the war, she was...
Erich Geldbach Erich Geldbach is retired professor of Ecumenical Studies, Protestant Faculty of Theology at Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany.
Marshall Bruce Gentry Marshall Bruce Gentry is professor of English at Georgia College in Milledgeville, and editor of the Flannery O'Connor Review. He is the author of FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S RELIGION OF THE GROTESQUE,...
Timothy George Timothy George is the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University and a senior editor for Christianity Today.
Katy Giebenhain Katy Giebenhain edits the Poetry + Theology rubric for Seminary Ridge Review. She holds an MA degree from the University of Baltimore and an MPhil in Creative Writing from University of South Wales...
Hugh M. Gloster, Jr.
Marissa Glover Marissa Glover teaches writing, humanities, and public speaking courses at Saint Leo University. Before academia, Glover worked as a writer and editor for more than fifteen years. She is currently...
Marissa Glover Marissa Glover lives and teaches in Florida, where she also serves as a reader for Orange Blossom Review. Before working in education, Glover was employed as a writer and editor for various...
Willis B. Glover
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R. Kirby Godsey R. Kirby Godsey is the author of three books, including When We Talk about God, Let's Be Honest. For twenty-seven years, he served as president of Mercer University and now serves as chancellor.
R. Kirby Godsey R. Kirby Godsey is the author of four books, including WHEN WE TALK ABOUT GOD, LET'S BE HONEST. For twenty-seven years, he served as president of Mercer University and now serves as chancellor.
R. Kirby Godsey R. Kirby Godsey is the author of four books, including Is God a Christian? and When We Talk About God...Let’s Be Honest. For twenty-seven years, he served as president of Mercer University,...
Sandra E. Godwin Sandra E. Godwin is professor of Sociology at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville where she teaches courses in social theory, gender, social psychology, and food and agriculture....
Betty Ruth Goen
Barry Goheen Barry Goheen is a "Double 'Dore," having graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1989 and the Vanderbilt School of Law in 1994. Goheen practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves as chairman of...
Everett C. Goodwin Everett C. Goodwin is a professional historian and author of books and articles on Baptist development and American social and legal history. As an ordained American Baptist minister, he has been...
Sarah Gordon Sarah Gordon, professor emerita at Georgia College in Milledgeville, is a widely published and award-winning poet, with work appearing in Christianity and Literature, Sewanee Review, Georgia...
Bruce T. Gourley Bruce T. Gourley received his PhD in history from Auburn University and is the executive director of the Baptist History & Heritage Society. He has authored books on Baptist history and Montana...
Bruce T. Gourley Bruce T. Gourley is an American historian (PhD Auburn, 2008). He is the author of seven previous books, a contributing writer to Nurturing Faith Journal, and a photographer.
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Alison Graham-Bertolini Alison Graham-Bertolini is an associate professor of English and Women's Studies at North Dakota State University. She is the coeditor of CARSON MCCULLERS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY and the author...
Cliff Graubart Cliff Graubart was born and raised in New York City. He attended the University of Toledo and is a graduate of Georgia State University. He has boxed in the Golden Gloves, sold furs in Manhattan in...
Jesse Graves Jesse Graves is the author of two previous poetry collections, TENNESSEE LANDSCAPE WITH BLIGHTED PINE (2011) and BASIN GHOSTS (2014). He received the James Still Award for Writing about the...
Jesse Graves Jesse Graves is the author of the poetry collections TENNESSEE LANDSCAPE WITH BLIGHTED PINE, BASIN GHOSTS, and SPECTER MOUNTAIN. His work received the James Still Award for Writing about the...
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Jesse Graves Jesse Graves is the author of four poetry collections, including SPECTER MOUNTAIN (co-written with William Wright), and MERCIFUL DAYS. His work has been recognized with the James Still Award for...
Ronald M. Green Ronald M. Green is the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth College. He received his PhD in religious ethics from Harvard University in 1973. He...
Tara T. Green TARA T. GREEN is an assistant professor of English and Ethnic Studies at Northern Arizona University where she teaches African-American Literature and Africana Studies courses. She earned her...
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Diane Asséo Griliches Diane Asséo Griliches is a photographer whose work has appeared nationally in many exhibitions. Her previous books include An Appalachian Farmer’s Story (Mercer), Teaching Musicians (Bunker Hill)...
Ed Grisamore Ed Grisamore is a columnist for The Telegraph in Macon, Georgia. He was the recipient of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, presented by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists....
Arne Gron Arne Grøn is cofounder and professor of the Center for Subjectivity Research in Copenhagen. He received his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen and is the author of numerous books and...
Fred Gross Fred Gross, a graduate of New York University, was a reporter for the Journal-Courier, a daily newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut, and has been a public-relations specialist for nearly thirty...
David P. Gushee David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University.
David P. Gushee David P. Gushee (PhD, Union Theological Seminary in New York) is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University....
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Gould B. Hagler, Jr. Gould B. Hagler, Jr. is a long-time lobbyist, representing the insurance industry at the state level. He holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Georgia State University. A native of Augusta,...
Pamela Chase Hain Pamela Chase Hain lives in Virginia. She received a BA from Syracuse University and an MA from Columbia University. Upon graduation, she was employed as an intelligence analyst by the Central...
Thomas Hallock Thomas Hallock is professor of English at the University of South Florida's St. Petersburg campus. His publications include A ROAD COURSE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE; FROM THE FALLEN TREE; and WILLIAM...
Phillip Hamilton Phillip Hamilton is associate professor of History at Christopher Newport University and formerly chair of the History department. He specializes in the history of Virginia and the American...
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Cathryn Hankla Born in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Cathryn Hankla is department chair and professor of English in the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University. She serves as Poetry...
Cathryn Hankla Born in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Cathryn Hankla has authored more than a dozen books in multiple genres, including GREAT BEAR, GALAXIES, and FORTUNE TELLER MIRACLE FISH. She is a...
Cathryn Hankla Cathryn Hankla is the author of fifteen books, including FORTUNE TELLER MIRACLE FISH, GALAXIES, and LOST PLACES: ON LOSING AND FINDING HOME. She is Hollins University professor emerita of English...
Cathryn Hankla Cathryn Hankla is a native of Southwest Virginia and the author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including GALAXIES, LOST PLACES, and NOT XANADU. Hankla is professor emerita of English &...
Cathryn Hankla Cathryn Hankla is the author of multiple works in several genres and a visual artist who grew up in Southwest Virginia. Recent publications include IMMORTAL STUFF: PROSE POEMS, NOT XANADU: POEMS,...
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F. Martin Harmon F. Martin Harmon was sports information director for twenty-two years at three Southern universities-- the final fourteen years at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Earlier in his career, he was...
Steven R. Harmon Steven R. Harmon is professor of Historical Theology at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. The author of four books, including BAPTIST IDENTITY AND THE ECUMENICAL FUTURE (2016), he is a...
Keith Harper Keith Harper is professor of Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is the editor of SEND THE LIGHT: LOTTIE MOON'S LETTERS AND OTHER WRITING...
Keith Harper Keith Harper is senior professor of Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of THE QUALITY OF MERCY and A MERE KENTUCKY OF A PLACE
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Walter J Harrelson
Paul L. Harris Paul L. Harris is a retired British Baptist minister who studied at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and at the Carver School of Church Social Work, Louisville, Kentucky. He served as pastor of...
Charles K. Hartman Charles H. Hartman currently teaches at Roger Williams College in Barrington, Rhode Island, in the area of Western thought. Previously, he was pastor of First Baptist Swansea, Massachusetts, and an...
Tim Hashaw TIM HASHAW is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Texas.
Ashley Mace Havird Ashley Mace Havird grew up on a tobacco farm in South Carolina. She has published three collections of poems, including THE GARDEN OF THE FUGITIVES (2014), which won the 2013 X. J. Kennedy Prize....
David Havird David Havird is the author of two collections in addition to WEATHERING: MAP HOME and PENELOPE'S DESIGN, which won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. A native South Carolinian, he graduated...
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Holly Haworth Holly Haworth's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Oxford American, Lapham’s Quarterly, Literary Hub, Creative Nonfiction, Sierra, and at the On Being radio...
Don Haymes Don Haymes is serials librarian and archivist in Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, former editor-in-chief of Mercer University Press, and former editor of Religion Index One. He is not...
Heath Robert L. Heath is director of graduate studies in the School of Communication at the University of Houston, where he has taught since completing doctoral studies in speech communication and...
Randy Hendricks
Robert J. Higgs Robert J. (Jack) Higgs attended Vanderbilt University and graduated from the United States Naval Academy. After military service he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. For twenty-seven...
Samuel S. Hill
Bracy V. Hill II Bracy V. Hill II is senior lecturer in History at Baylor University where he teaches courses in British and American History, especially the history of hunting. He holds a PhD in Religion (Baylor),...
E. Glenn Hinson E. Glenn Hinson is emeritus professor of Spirituality and John Loftis Professor of Church History at Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In retirement he served as visiting...
Elizabeth C. Hirschman
Ann Hite Ann Hite is the author of two novels and a novella. Her debut novel, GHOST ON BLACK MOUNTAIN, became a Townsend Prize Finalist and won Georgia Author of the Year in 2012. She is an active board...
Ann Hite Ann Hite has published four novels and a novella that are set in Black Mountain, North Carolina. At age 51, she became a published novelist. Her debut novel, GHOST ON BLACK MOUNTAIN, won Georgia...
Ann Hite Ann Hite's debut novel, GHOST ON BLACK MOUNTAIN, won Georgia Author of the Year and was a Townsend Prize Finalist in 2012. Being a city girl most of her life, she now writes each day in her home...
Ann Hite Ann Hite is an award-winning Southern writer and admits to being a storyteller from birth. Her GHOST ON BLACK MOUNTAIN won Georgia Author of the Year and was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize in...
Eve Hoffman Eve Hoffman loves dirt roads and Guernsey cream. She's been honored by her alma mater Smith College as a "Remarkable Woman" and by Georgia Trend as one of a hundred influential people in the state....
Kevin Hoffman Kevin Hoffman received his PhD in Philosophy from Fordham University and taught for many years at Christ College in the honors program of Valparaiso University where he was given the Caterpillar...
Kevin Hoffman Kevin Hoffman is chair and professor of Philosophy and Religion at Methodist University. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Theology from Valparaiso University and a PhD in Philosophy from Fordham...
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Kimberley M. Holloway Kimberley M. Holloway grew up in Cookeville TN. She attended Tennessee Technological University (BS) and East Tennessee State University (MA) and presently lives in Johnson City TN. She has been a...
William Homestead William Homestead is an associate professor and author of AN ECOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION: RESPONSE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN AN AGE OF ECOCRISIS. He had a long association with the Ometeca Institute, a...
William Homestead William Homestead is an associate professor and author of NOT TILL WE ARE LOST: THOREAU, EDUCATION, AND CLIMATE CRISIS and AN ECOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION: RESPONSE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN AN AGE OF...
Ralph W. Hood, Jr. Ralph W. Hood, Jr., holds a joint doctorate in Sociology and Psychology. His major interest is psychology of religion. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters as well as authored,...
Paul Hornsby Paul Hornsby is a former member of the music groups The Minutes and Hour Glass. In the 1970s, he was a producer and engineer at the legendary Capricorn Records. A 2010 inductee of the Alabama Music...
Sheridan Hough Sheridan Hough is professor of Philosophy at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Her poetry has appeared in many literary magazines—her first volume of poetry, The Hide, was...
Sheridan Hough
Eimad Houry Eimad Houry is emeritus professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Mercer University. He holds a PhD from Florida State University. Houry developed, led, or co-led 28 study-abroad...
George Howard George Howard is professor of Religion, emeritus, the University of Georgia in Athens.
J. Dwayne Howell J. Dwayne Howell is professor emeritus of Old Testament and Hebrew at Campbellsville University. He has also pastored in local Kentucky churches for over thirty years. Howell is a founding member...
Ann N. Hughes
Sara Pirkle Hughes Sara Pirkle Hughes is a Georgia native, an identical twin, and a breast cancer survivor. She holds a PhD in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. A recipient of writing fellowships from I-Park...
William E. Hull William E. Hull is research professor at Samford University and theologian in residence at Mountain Brook Baptist Church, both in the suburbs of his birthplace, Birmingham, Alabama. Prior to these...
James B. Hunt James B. Hunt is professor emeritus of History at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, and cofounder of the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship. Hunt taught American, Latin American,...
Victor L. Hunter
John Coolidge Hurd, Jr. John Coolidge Hurd, Jr. was professor of New Testament at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest 1960-1967, and since 1967 has been professor of New Testament at Trinity College, Toronto.
Allen E. Hye Allen E. Hye, Professor of German and Danish at Wright State University, is editor of Modernes Deutschland im Brennpunkt, and author of The Moral Dilemma of the Scientist in Modern Drama and...
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John Iamarino Enjoying retirement after forty years in college athletics both on campus and in a conference office setting, John Iamarino most recently served as commissioner of the Southern Conference from 2006...
John Inscore Essick John Inscore Essick is assistant professor of Church History at the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky in Georgetown, KY. He holds degrees from Appalachian State University (BS), Campbell University...
Richard W. Iobst Richard W. Iobst earned a Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of the Bloody Sixth: History of the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate...
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Milinda Jay Milinda Jay is an eighth-generation Florida native. She likes to reimagine the family secrets that helped forge a unique culture out of the hot, mosquito-ridden Panhandle. Jay teaches Creative...
Milinda Jay Milinda Jay teaches creative writing at Florida State University, Panama City. Her first novel, HER ROMAN PROTECTOR, enjoys a wide international audience, and her second novel, ANNIE LAURA'S...
Robert D. Jenkins, Sr.

A native of Mississippi, Robert D. Jenkins, Sr., grew up in Chamblee, Georgia, where he first studied the Civil War as part of the fourth-grade curriculum where he chose “War in...
Robert D. Jenkins Sr. A native of Chamblee, Robert D. (Bob) Jenkins, Sr. has been a trial attorney in Dalton, Georgia, since 1990. He holds a BBA in Business Management from Georgia Southern University and a JD from...
Matthew Jennings Matthew Jennings is associate professor of History at Middle Georgia State College, where he has taught courses in Native American history, among other subjects, since 2007. His first book, New...
Matthew Jennings Matthew Jennings is associate professor of History at Middle Georgia State University. He is the author of NEW WORLDS OF VIOLENCE: CULTURES AND CONQUESTS IN THE EARLY AMERICAN SOUTHEAST and editor...
Samuel Joeckel Samuel Joeckel is associate professor of English and professor in the Supper Honors Program at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Ruthann Knechel Johansen An interdisciplinary teacher and scholar, Ruthann Knechel Johansen is professor emerita at the University of Notre Dame and president emerita of Bethany Theological Seminary. She holds degrees from...
Pharris D. Johnson
Phillip Johnson
Gordon Johnston Gordon Johnston is professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at Mercer University. He is author of GRAVITY'S LIGHT GRIP, a poetry chapbook, and has published in The Georgia Review,...
Gordon Johnston Gordon Johnston has written two chapbooks, DURABLE GOODS (Finishing Line Press) and GRAVITY'S LIGHT GRIP (Perkolator Press), co-authored a guide to Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, and...
Gordon Johnston Gordon Johnston is author of the award-winning poetry collection SCARING THE BEARS and of the poetry chapbooks DURABLE GOODS and GRAVITY'S LIGHT GRIP, and is coauthor, with Matthew Jennings, of...
Gordon Johnston Gordon Johnston is professor of Creative Writing at Mercer University. A former journalist, he is the award-winning author of SEVEN ISLANDS OF THE OCMULGEE, SCARING THE BEARS, and DURABLE GOODS....
Gordon Johnston Gordon Johnston is professor of English and Creative Writing at Mercer University.
R. William Johnstone R. William Johnstone worked closely with Wyche Fowler throughout Fowler’s Congressional career as his legislative director in the U.S. House, chief of staff in the Senate, and campaign manager in...
Marc A Jolley Marc A. Jolley is director of Mercer University Press.
W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. is the Howard Professor of Religion and chairman of the department of Religion and Philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. He is the author of A...
W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. is the Howard Professor of Religion and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. He is a graduate of Mars Hill...
W. Glenn Jonas Jr. W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. is the Howard Professor of Religion and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Campbell University. He has contributed articles to a variety of journals and is...
Anne B. Jones Anne B. Jones (PhD) is the author of Tides of Fear, STOP, Gold Thunder, All Around the Track, and Brave at Heart. She taught school thirty-one years, and has been a volunteer mediator, rapecrisis...
Mark L. Jones Mark L. Jones is professor of Law at the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University,
Seaborn Jones Seaborn Jones of Lizella, Georgia, has published three chapbooks and two full-length books, Drowning from the Inside Out and Lost Keys. His work has appeared in the New York Quarterly, River Styx,...
Will R. Jordan Will R. Jordan is an associate professor of Political Science at Mercer University. He received his BA from Washington & Lee University and his PhD in Political Science from Loyola University...
Will R. Jordan Will R. Jordan is an associate professor of Political Science at Mercer University. He received his BA from Washington & Lee University and his PhD in Political Science from Loyola University...
Will R. Jordan Will R. Jordan is associate professor of Political Science at Mercer University. He holds a BA from Washington & Lee University and a PhD in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago....
Will R. Jordan Will R. Jordan is an associate professor of Political Science at Mercer University. He holds a BA from Washington & Lee University and a PhD in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago....
Will R. Jordan Will R. Jordan is an associate professor of Political Science at Mercer University. He holds a BA from Washington and Lee University and a PhD in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago....
Will R. Jordan Will R. Jordan is professor of Political Science at Mercer University. He holds a BA from Washington and Lee University and a PhD in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago. Jordan serves...
Will R. Jordan Will R. Jordan is professor of Political Science at Mercer University. He holds a BA from Washington and Lee University and a PhD in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago. Jordan serves...
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Philip Juras Philip Juras, a native of Augusta, Georgia, now lives in Athens, and paints the landscapes of travel, but focuses primarily on remnant natural landscapes that offer a glimpse of the Southeast...
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Terry Kay Terry Kay, a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, is the author of sixteen published works, including TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE DOG, THE BOOK OF MARIE, THE GREATS OF CUTTERCANE, SHADOW SONG,...
Terry Kay Terry Kay, a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame and recipient of the Governor’s Award in the Humanities, is the author of sixteen works of fiction, including the classic TO DANCE WITH THE...
Terry Kay A member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Terry Kay is the recipient of the Governor's Humanities Award, the Townsend Award, and the Lindberg Award, and has been named Georgia Author of the...
Terry Kay A member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Terry Kay is the recipient of the Governor's Humanities Award, the Townsend Award, and the Lindberg Award, and has been named Georgia Author of the...
Casey Kayser Casey Kayser is an assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where she teaches courses in literature and medical humanities. She is the coeditor of CARSON MCCULLERS IN THE...
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Kemp Kathryn W. Kemp is assistant professor of History at Clayton College & State University. She earned her Ph.D. at Georgia State University.
Thomas Kempis
N. Brent Kennedy N. Brent Kennedy is founder of the Melungeon Research Committee and author of the acclaimed The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People.
Robyn Vaughan Kennedy
Doug Kershaw Doug Kershaw has enjoyed a prolific career in television entertainment and as a musician and songwriter, recording over 400 songs with such labels as Hickory Records, RCA, Columbia, and Warner...
Kenneth Laine Ketner Kenneth Laine Ketner is P.W. Horn Professor and director of the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism at Texas Tech University. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Oklahoma State University, an MA in...
James Everett Kibler
James Everett Kibler
John Killinger John Killinger is a widely respected minister, professor, and author who has taught at such leading seminaries as Vanderbilt, Princeton, Chicago, and Claremont, and has been pastor of large,...
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Bill King Bill King is professor of English at Davis & Elkins College. The 2021 Heartwood Poetry Award winner and author of the chapbook THE LETTING GO, his work appears in 100 Word Story, The Cincinnati...
Spencer B. King Jr.
Thomas Daniel Knight Thomas Daniel Knight is associate professor of History at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. A native of LaGrange, Georgia, he holds a BA from Washington and Lee University and MSt, MLitt,...
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John J. Kucich John J. Kucich is a professor of English at Bridgewater State University and author of UNSETTLING THOREAU: NATIVE AMERICANS, SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND THE POWER OF PLACE. He serves as president of...
Evan Kutzler Evan A. Kutzler is an assistant professor of History at Georgia Southwestern State University where he teaches U.S. and Public History. He received a BA from Centre College, and an MA in Public...
Evan A. Kutzler Evan A. Kutzler is associate professor of U.S. and Public History at Western Michigan University. He is the author or editor of many books, including OSSABAW ISLAND: A SENSE OF PLACE and PRISON PENS.
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Sinead Ladegaard Knox Sinead Ladegaard Knox is a philosopher teaching at universities in Denmark and the US. She is the author of a book on the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel and has written articles on ethics,...
Christina Bieber Lake Christina Bieber Lake is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College where she teaches classes in Contemporary American Literature and Literary Theory. All of her work explores the...
Christopher A. LaLonde
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Frank Lambert Frank Lambert is professor of History at Purdue University where he teaches courses on Colonial and Revolutionary American History and American Religious History. He is the author of seven books...
Anne Lamott
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John Lane John Lane is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems. He has received an NEA Poetry Apprenticeship Grant, a Hoyns Fellowship in...
John Lane John Lane is professor of English and Environmental Studies at Wofford College and director of the Goodall Environmental Studies Center. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, with...
John Lane John Lane attended Wofford College, The Breadloaf School of English, and Bennington College. Among his many awards his selected poems, ABANDONED QUARRY, won the Southeastern Independent Booksellers...
John Lane John Lane attended Wofford College, The Breadloaf School of English, and Bennington College. Among his many awards his selected poems, ABANDONED QUARRY, won the Southern Independent Booksellers...
John Lane John Lane is emeritus professor at Wofford College, where he taught creative writing, environmental studies, and directed the Goodall Environmental Studies Center. There he helped imagine and...
John Lane John Lane is emeritus professor at Wofford College, where he taught creative writing, environmental studies, and directed the Goodall Environmental Studies Center. There he helped imagine and...
John Lane John Lane is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including eight from Mercer University Press. He has won the Louisville Review Prize and Prairie Schooner’s Glenna Luschei Award. His...
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Chuck Leavell
Chuck Leavell
John Leland John Leland has written nature essays—READINGS IN WOOD, LEARNING THE VALLEY, and PORCHER'S CREEK—and ALIENS IN THE BACKYARD: PLANT AND ANIMAL IMPORTS INTO AMERICA. He teaches at Washington & Lee...
J. Stanley Lemons J. Stanley Lemons is emeritus professor of History at Rhode Island College and historian of the First Baptist Church in America. An historian of American culture, Dr. Lemons’s scholarly interests...
Bill J. Leonard Bill J. Leonard is James and Marilyn Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and Church History at the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University. Widely recognized for his work in American, Southern,...
Catherine M. Lewis Catherine M. Lewis is professor of History and associate vice provost of Museums, Archives & Rare Books and the University Libraries at Kennesaw State University. She is the author, coauthor, or...
Helen Matthews Lewis
Paul A. Lewis Paul A. Lewis is associate professor of Christianity in the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer University.
Glenn M. Linden Glenn M. Linden is associate professor of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he has taught since 1968. He has authored, edited, or co-edited seven books including three in...
Virginia Linden Virginia Linden has a BA from the University of Washington and an MA in sculpture from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She has worked on eight books with Glenn editing and...
Frank H. Littell
Donna Coffey Little Donna Coffey Little is professor of English at Reinhardt University and founder of Reinhardt's Etowah Valley Low-Residency MFA. Her publications include the chapbook FIRE STREET as well as essays,...
Calvin M. Logue Calvin M. Logue is Professor of Speech Communication and Director of the Public Communication Division at the University of Georgia, Athens.
Patrick E. Longan Patrick E. Longan holds the W.A. Bootle Chair in Ethics and Professionalism at Mercer University's School of Law. He began conducting the interviews that comprise the "Inside the Legal Profession"...
Kathryn M. Lopez Kathryn Muller Lopez is associate professor of Christian Studies at Campbell University, teaching in the field of Old Testament and World Religions.
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Jamie Lorentzen Jamie Lorentzen chairs the Friends of the Hong Kierkegaard Library. He is the author of KIERKEGAARD'S METAPHORS and SOBER CANNIBALS, DRUNKEN CHRISTIANS: MELVILLE, KIERKEGAARD, AND TRAGIC OPTIMISM...
Jamie Lorentzen Jamie Lorentzen is a senior research fellow at the Hong Kierkegaard Library and author of several books and articles on Kierkegaard, Melville, and Bob Dylan.
Jamie Lorentzen Jamie Lorentzen holds a BA in Philosophy from St. Olaf College and an MA in English from the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English. He chaired the Friends of the Hong Kierkegaard Library...
Bobby L. Lovett Bobby L. Lovett was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He received his public school education in Memphis, and BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of Arkansas. He has taught in the Memphis Public...
Denton Loving Denton Loving lives on a farm near the historic Cumberland Gap where Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia come together. He is the author of the poetry collection CRIMES AGAINST BIRDS. His poetry,...
Jeffrey C. Lowe
John Lynskey John Lynskey has been involved with The Allman Brothers Band since 1995, first serving as editor-in-chief of Hittin' the Note, the group's music magazine. He coauthored MY CROSS TO BEAR, Gregg...
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Jessica Madison Jessica Madison earned her PhD from the University of Kentucky. She now specializes in online instruction and teaches courses in American History for Eastern Kentucky University, Tennessee Temple...
Andrew M. Manis Andrew M. Manis is assistant professor of history at Macon State College, Macon, Georgia. He is the author of A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred...
Andrew M. Manis Andrew M. Manis is emeritus professor of History at Middle Georgia State University. An ordained Baptist minister with a PhD from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he is the award-winning...
Gordon Marino Gordon Marino is professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College.
Gordon Marino Gordon Marino is professor of Philosophy and curator of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College.
Marina Marren Marina Marren is assistant professor of Philosophy at the United Arab Emirates University. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek, political, as well as nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy....
Bill Marscher Bill Marscher, a retired engineer, and Fran Marscher, a retired newspaper editor, are residents of the South Carolina coast, the region ravaged by the storm.
Fran Marscher Bill Marscher, a retired engineer, and Fran Marscher, a retired newspaper editor, are residents of the South Carolina coast, the region ravaged by the storm.
Christopher Martin Christopher Martin is author of three poetry chapbooks, and his essays and poems have appeared in publications across the country. He is the founding editor of Flycatcher, an ecological journal,...
George Winston Martin George Winston Martin is an independent scholar who resides in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Martin has pursued a lifelong interest in family genealogy and the War Between the States. He...
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Sandy Dwayne Martin Sandy Dwayne Martin is professor of Religion at the University of Georgia. An ordained minister and associate pastor of East Friendship Baptist Church in Athens, Georgia, he holds a PhD from Union...
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James Earl Massey James Earl Massey is dean emeritus and Distinguished Professor-at-Large of the Anderson University School of Theology. He is also pastor-emeritus and founding pastor of Metropolitan Church of God.
Karen Massey Karen Massey is associate professor of Christian Education and Faith Development at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a curriculum writer for children and...
Ray Mathis

Ray Mathis (1937–1981) was a professor in the department of History at Troy State University. He was the author of Pilgrimage to Madison, College Life in the Reconstruction South,...
Melody Maxwell Melody Maxwell serves as associate professor of Christian History at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and is director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies.
Linda S. McCardle Linda S. McCardle has been a teacher in the Columbus Public School system (Georgia) for thirty years, with an interest in genealogy since the mid 1970s. These letters are those of her great-great...
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June Hall McCash June Hall McCash is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, six nonfiction works and a historical novel, for which she won the 2011 Georgia Author of the Year Award for first novel. She...
June Hall McCash The author of fourteen previous books, June Hall McCash is a two-time winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University. Much of her...
William B. McCash William B. McCash was professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University.
Holly Sullivan McClure Holly Sullivan McClure was raised in the Smoky Mountains by preachers, shaman, storytellers, and bluegrass musicians. Her writing is inspired by the culture and stories of her Cherokee mother’s...
Rhonda Reneé McDonnell Rhonda Reneé McDonnell is a professor of American Literature and Composition at Northern Virginia Community College. She holds a PhD in American Literature from Arizona State University.
Roland McElroy Roland McElroy was a key participant in Georgia State Representative Sam Nunn’s first election to the US Senate (1972). Their working relationship continued in Washington DC where McElroy served as...
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Michael McFee Michael McFee has published fifteen books--eleven volumes of poetry, most recently WE WERE ONCE HERE (Carnegie Mellon, 2017); one collection of prose, THE NAPKIN MANUSCRIPTS (Tennessee, 2006); and...
Ralph McGill
Thomas R. McKibbens Thomas R. McKibbens has served as Senior Minister of the First Baptist Churches of Newton and Worcester, Massachusetts. He has served as Interim Pastor of the First Baptist Church in America,...
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Joel McMahon Joel McMahon is a professor of History and Philosophy. He holds a degree in engineering from Georgia Tech and a PhD in History from Georgia State University. Prior to an award-winning career in...
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Joanne H. McMullen Joanne Halleran McMullen is the director of extended learning in continuing education at Louisiana State University. She received her BA from the University of Kansas, her MA from Ohio Universit...
Charles McNair Charles McNair is an international business communication consultant, award-winning journalist, cultural critic, columnist, and author of three novels. His leadership communication firm, MAS,...
Larry L. McSwain Larry L. McSwain is associate dean of the doctor of Ministry degree program, professor of Leadership, and holds the Watkins Christian Foundation Chair of Ministry, at McAfee School of Theology,...
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Calvin Mercer Calvin R. Mercer is an assistant professor of religious studies at East Carolina University, where he has taught since completing his doctoral work at Flordia State University.
Bill Merritt Bill Merritt grew up in Atlanta during the post-war era, from 1945–1970. He holds an AB in English from Duke University, a BArch from the University of Oregon, and a JD from St. Louis University....
Christopher C. Meyers Christopher C. Meyers is a professor of history at Valdosta State University where he teaches Georgia history, US political history, and U.S. military history. His previous books include The Empire...
Christopher C. Meyers Christopher C. Meyers is professor of History at Valdosta State University where he teaches Georgia history, U.S. political history, and U.S. military history. His previous books include THE EMPIRE...
Donald G. Miller
Randall M. Miller Jon L. Wakelyn, Professor of History and Director of American Studies at the Catholic University of America, is author of Southern Common Folk in the Nineteenth Century. Randall M. Miller,...
Watson Mills
John Milton John Milton (1608–1674) was arguably one of the best-read persons of his epoch. Milton’s commonplace book reveals that in addition to the thoroughly humanistic education that he received at...
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Thorpe Moeckel is director of the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia (MFA) and Bowdoin College (BA) and is the author of...
Thorpe Moeckel Thorpe Moeckel is the author of a nonfiction book, a middle grade novel, and four books of poems. His work has been widely anthologized and honored with NEA, Javits, Hoyns, Sustainable Arts, and...
Thorpe Moeckel Thorpe Moeckel is director of the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University. He is author of eight books, including TRUE AS TRUE CAN BE and DOWN BY THE ENO, DOWN BY THE HAW. The...
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Jimmy Morrow Jimmy Morrow is a native Appalachian, pastor, and long-time serpent handler. He has collected extensive oral histories of serpent handling that allows the history or serpent handling to be explored...
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Tina Mullen Tina Mullen is currently the director of the UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine—a program that brings the arts to patients and families struggling with serious illness. Her work has been exhibited...
David W Music David W. Music is professor of Church Music in the School of Music at Baylor University, where he has served on the faculty since 2002. He has written widely in the field of church music, with...
David W. Music David W. Music has served on the faculties of Baylor University, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and California Baptist College. He was editor of The Hymn, the journal of the Hymn...
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Ronald B. Neal Ronald B. Neal’s (PhD Vanderbilt University) research and writing interests include religion, gender, culture, religion, ethics and politics, modern and postmodern philosophy, Third World cultures,...
Jack Nelson Jack Nelson is the retired chief Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
Harvey Newman Harvey Newman is a professor emeritus in the department of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University. He has an extensive academic background in urban policy studies and is the...
Ryan Andrew Newson Ryan Andrew Newson teaches theology and ethics at Campbell University. He holds degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (PhD), Wake Forest University (MDiv), and Elon University (BA). Newson is...
Ryan Andrew Newson Ryan Andrew Newson is assistant professor of Theology and Ethics at Campbell University. He is author of several books, including INHABITING THE WORLD and RADICAL FRIENDSHIP.
Col. William O. Nisbet William O. Nisbet, Jr., Quintard’s great-great-grandson, is a Presbyterian Church (USA) minister and a chaplain in the US Army Reserve.
L. Lamar Nisly L. Lamar Nisly (Ph.D. University of Delaware) is currently professor of English and chair of the English and Language department at Bluffton University (Ohio), where he has taught for thirteen...
Echol Nix, Jr.

Echol Nix, Jr., is an alumnus of Morehouse College (BA) with degrees from Vanderbilt University (MDiv) and Boston University (PhD, STM). He writes and teaches in the areas of religion and...
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Chinekwu Obidoa Chinekwu Obidoa is associate professor of Global Health Studies and Africana Studies at Mercer University. She earned a PhD from the University of Connecticut and holds Master’s degrees in...
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Duane Olson Duane Olson is professor of Religious Studies and codirector of the Environmental Studies program at McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois, where he has taught for nineteen years. He is past...
Steve Oney Steve Oney is the author of AND THE DEAD SHALL RISE, winner of the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. Oney...
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Henrik Otterberg Henrik Otterberg, a Swedish economist at Kagaku Analys AB, wrote his PhD on Thoreau’s aesthetics. Since 2017, he has served as bibliographer and review editor for the Thoreau Society Bulletin. He...
Clay Ouzts Clay Ouzts is professor of History at the University of North Georgia, where his areas of historical focus are the American Revolution, Georgia history, Native American history, environmental...
Steven J. Overman Steven J. Overman attended Purdue and Washington State University. Most of his teaching career was spent at Jackson State University in Mississippi.
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Dorothy Padgett Dorothy “Dot” Padgett organized the Carter presidential campaign effort known as the Peanut Brigade. During the Carter Administration, she was appointed assistant chief of Protocol at the State...
Honorable J. Wade Padgett The Honorable J. Wade Padgett currently serves as Superior Court Judge of the Augusta (Georgia) Judicial Circuit. He holds a JD from Georgia State College of Law and a BA in History from the...
Elaine Fowler Palencia An award-winning writer and freelance editor, Elaine Fowler Palencia grew up in Kentucky and Tennessee. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University, she has authored six books of fiction;...
George A. Panichas
Joshua Parens Joshua Parens is professor of Philosophy and Politics, and former dean of the Braniff Graduate School at the University of Dallas. He received his BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College and MA...
David B. Parker David B. Parker, professor of History at Kennesaw State University, has been the department’s assistant chair since August 2009. He teaches classes in Georgia history, the history of American...
Frederick J. Parrella Frederick J. Parrella is professor emeritus of Theology at Santa Clara University. He received his AB in Classical Languages and PhD in Systematic Theology from Fordham University. His dissertation...
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Mikeal C. Parsons Mikeal C. Parsons is professor and Macon Chair in Religion at Baylor University where he has taught since 1986. Parsons has published two dozen books, including with Heidi Hornik, INTERPRETING...
David E. Paterson Public historian David E. Paterson studies Upson County, Georgia, especially the local history of slavery and Reconstruction. A civilian employee of the US Navy by day, he spends his leisure hours...
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Charles E. Pearson Charles E. Pearson, a native of St. Simons Island, Georgia, received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Georgia. He has conducted archaeological research at prehistoric sites in Georgia...
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Michael Pearson is professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University (PhD), University of San Francisco (MA), and Fordham University...
Jon P. Peede Jon Parrish Peede is counselor to the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and director of the NEA’s Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience program. He holds degrees fr...
Jon Parrish Peede Jon Parrish Peede is president of Ashland University and Ashland Theological Seminary. He is the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and former publisher of the Virginia...
Cathie Pelletier Cathie Pelletier is the critically acclaimed author of twelve novels, including THE FUNERAL MAKERS and THE ONE-WAY BRIDGE. Several of her books have been translated into numerous languages and two...
Donald N. Penny
Walker Percy American author Walker Percy (1916-1990) was one of the most prominent Southern writers of the twentieth century. Known for his poetic style and depiction of alienation in modern American culture,...
James A. Perkins James A. Perkins is distinguished professor emeritus of English and Public Relations at Westminster College. He holds degrees from Centre College, Miami University, and the University of Tennessee....
Karey Lea Perkins Karey Lea Perkins has taught literature, writing, and philosophy for over thirty years. She holds a BA in English and a BA in Religion from Wake Forest University, an MA in English from the...
Robert L. Perkins Robert L. Perkins is senior research professor of Philosphy at Stetson University.
Robert L. Perkins Robert L. Perkins (PhD, Indiana University), is senior research professor emeritus at Stetson University.
Sylvia Walsh Perkins Sylvia Walsh Perkins is retired Scholar in Residence at Stetson University, where she specialized in Kierkegaard and Contemporary Feminist Philosophy. She holds degrees from Oberlin College (AB),...
William Perkins Willie Perkins is president of Republic Artists Management and Atlas Records. He holds a BA degree from the University of Georgia. Perkins was tour manager for The Allman Brothers Band from...
Willie Perkins
Willie Perkins Willie Perkins is president of Republic Artists Management and Atlas Records. He holds a BA degree from the University of Georgia. Perkins was tour manager for The Allman Brothers Band from...
Willie Perkins A native of Augusta, Georgia, Willie Perkins received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Georgia and a commercial banking certificate from the American Institute of...
Chuck Perry Chuck Perry spent more than forty years in the publishing business, first as a newspaperman with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, then as founder and publisher of Longstreet Press, and finally in...
Sam Pickering Sam Pickering grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. After attending Sewanee, Cambridge, and Princeton, he started teaching English, a happy career that enabled him to roam distant countries and nearby...
Sam Pickering Sam Pickering grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He spent sixty-seven years in classrooms, beginning with learning to play the tambourine in kindergarten and ending by teaching English at the...
Wendy Piper Wendy Piper teaches in the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth College a nd specializes in American literature and first-year writing.
William L. Pitts, Jr. William L. Pitts, Jr. is a professor of Church History in the Religion department at Baylor University. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (MDiv and PhD). Pitts has published in the areas of...
William L. Pitts, Jr. William L. Pitts, Jr. is professor of Religion at Baylor University where he teaches the History of Christianity. He has served as executive secretary of the Southwest Commission on Religious...
William L. Pitts, Jr. William L. Pitts, Jr. is professor of Religion at Baylor University where he teaches the History of Christianity. He has served as executive secretary of the Southwest Commission on Religious...
William L. Pitts, Jr. William L. Pitts, Jr. is emeritus professor of Religion at Baylor University where he taught the History of Christianity. He has served as director of Graduate Studies for the department of...
Andy Plattner Andy Plattner is a graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. A former horse racing journalist, he has published four other books, including the Flannery O’Connor...
Andy Plattner Andy Plattner is assistant professor of English at Kennesaw State University. His fiction has earned a Flannery O'Connor Award, a Henfield Prize, the Dzanc Mid-Career Novel Prize, the Dr. Tony Ryan...
Andy Plattner Andy Plattner, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, has worked as a horse groom, a farm hand, a horse race journalist, and a university professor. His first novel, OFFERINGS FROM A RUST BELT JOCKEY,...
Charles E. Poole Charles E. Poole serves as the senior minister at Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. The author of seven books, he has also served as senior minister of First Baptist Church of...
John Randolph Poole John Randolph Poole, a graduate of the University of Georgia, is managing partner of Poole & Dunn Management Services, LLC, a small firm that provides government relations and management services...
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Lisa D. Powell Lisa D. Powell is assistant professor of Theology and Women’s Studies at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. She is the first-place winner of the 2011 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New...
J. Kristian Pratt J. Kristian Pratt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gardner-Webb University, and Baylor University) is a church historian specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century religion in...
J. Kristian Pratt J. Kristian Pratt (PhD, Baylor University) is professor of Religion and chair of the Humanities department at Spartanburg Methodist College. His research focuses on nineteenth- and...
Roger H. Prentice Roger H. Prentice (1943-2022) was dean of the Manning Memorial Chapel and served as University Chaplain at Acadia University until his retirement in 2007. Prentice's service within the church,...
Joseph L. Price Joseph L. Price is the Genevieve Shaul Connick Professor of Religious Studies at Whittier College. Author and co-editor of several theological works, including A New Handbook of Christian Theology...
Joseph L. Price Passionate about baseball and music, Joseph L. Price has sung the national anthem for games in more than twenty major league stadiums and 100 minor league ballparks. Professor of Religious Studies...
Alex Priou Alex Priou is a teaching assistant professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics, & Society at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of three books on Platonic political...
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Milam McGraw Propst Milam McGraw Propst is a freelance writer with numerous articles published in Georgia Journal, Caring Magazine, Birmingham Magazine, and The Birmingham News.
Milam McGraw Propst Milam McGraw Propst hopped about from newspaper reporting to public relations to writing books. Author of nine books in all, her first, A FLOWER BLOOMS ON CHARLOTTE STREET published by Mercer...
John Pruitt John Pruitt began his journalism career in 1964 as a television reporter-cameraman and eventually rose to top anchor at WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia. For a half-century he covered the civil rights...
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Adam Pryor Adam Pryor is assistant professor of Religion and director of Core Education at Bethany College. He received a PhD in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union....
Edward H. Pulliam Edward H. Pulliam is a graduate of Davidson College and Columbia University Law School. A freelance editor and writer, his articles have appeared in national history magazines, the Washington Post,...
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Charles Todd Quintard Charles T. Quintard studied for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church under Bishop James Otey and was ordained as a priest in 1856. He was rector of the Church of the Advent, Nashville,...
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Donavan L. Ramon Donavan L. Ramon is assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a BA in English from Hunter College and a PhD in English (African American Literature) from...
Richard Rankin Richard Rankin writes books and articles on cultural history, nature, and hunting. After a long career as a college professor and administrator and an independent school headmaster, Rankin directs...
Richard E. Rankin, Jr. Richard E. Rankin, Jr. is the Anderson Davis Warlick Head of Gaston Day School in Gastonia, North Carolina. He holds a BA from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of North...
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William Rawlings William Rawlings was born, raised, and still lives on the family farm in Sandersville, Georgia. A practicing physician, he is the author of five novels set in the rural South. His interest in the...
William Rawlings William Rawlings, a physician and sixth-generation resident of Washington County, Georgia, was educated at Emory, Tulane, and Johns Hopkins Universities. He is the author of a number of books,...
William Rawlings William Rawlings is a sixth-generation resident of Washington County, Georgia. Author of eight books, this is the third work of nonfiction published by Mercer University Press. Rawlings attended...
William Rawlings William Rawlings is a sixth-generation resident of Washington County, Georgia. Author of eight books, including three works of nonfiction published by Mercer University Press. Rawlings attended...
William Rawlings William Rawlings is a prolific author of "Southern stories," including six novels set in Georgia, and three non-fiction works of Southern history. Educated at Emory, Tulane, and Johns Hopkins...
William Rawlings A prolific author of "Southern stories," William Rawlings, lives on the family farm in Sandersville, Georgia. He was educated at Emory, Tulane, and Johns Hopkins Universities. SIX INCHES DEEPER is...
William Rawlings William Rawlings was born, raised, and lives in Sandersville, Georgia, home to his family for more than two centuries. He was educated at Emory, Tulane, and Johns Hopkins Universities. A prolific...
William Rawlings William Rawlings was born, raised, and lives in Sandersville, Georgia, home to his family for more than two centuries. He was educated at Emory, Tulane, and Johns Hopkins Universities. A prolific...
William Rawlings William Rawlings is a sixth-generation resident of Washington County, Georgia, where he still lives on the family farm. Educated at Emory, Tulane, and Johns Hopkins Universities, he is an avid...
William Rawlings William Rawlings is a sixth-generation resident of Washington County, Georgia. A retired physician, he is an avid world traveler, photographer, and prolific writer of nine novels and six works of...
Reece Robert D Reece , a ethicist, and Harvey A. Siegal, a sociologist, study people and teach them in the Department of Medicine in Society of the Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton,...
Kelly E. Reffitt Kelly E. Reffitt is an assistant professor in the Tift College of Education at Mercer University.
Don Reid Don Reid, lead singer for The Statler Brothers is a three-time Grammy Award-winner with twenty-one gold and platinum albums. He is a member of the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. As a...
Don Reid Don Reid, lead singer for The Statler Brothers, is a three-time Grammy Award-winner with twenty-one gold and platinum albums. He is a member of the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. As...
Don Reid Don Reid, lead singer for The Statler Brothers, is a three-time Grammy Award-winner with twenty-one gold and platinum albums. He is a member of the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. As...
Don Reid Don Reid, lead singer for The Statler Brothers, is a three-time Grammy Award-winner with twenty-one gold and platinum albums. He is a member of the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. As...
Don Reid Don Reid, lead singer for The Statler Brothers, is a three-time Grammy Award winner with twenty-one gold and platinum albums. He is a member of the Country Music & Gospel Music Halls of Fame. As a...
Ruth Reiniche Ruth Reiniche has proudly spent her life teaching the Language Arts in public secondary education. She holds degrees from The University of Michigan (BA), Grand Valley State University (MA), and...
Steven Reiss Steven Reiss is an American psychologist who continues to contribute original ideas, new assessment methods, and influential research studies to three topics in psychology: anxiety disorders,...
Arthur Remillard Arthur Remillard is associate professor of Religious Studies at Saint Francis University. His writing on religion and sports has been featured both in scholarly and popular outlets such as The...
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Tracy J. Revels Tracy J. Revels is currently a professor of History at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She received her PhD in History from Florida State University. Revels is the author of other...
Bradley R. Rice Bradley R. Rice is emeritus professor of History at Clayton State University. He is past president of the Georgia Association of Historians and former board member of the Georgia Historical...
Ronda Rich Ronda Rich, whose Georgia roots were planted around 1750, is the bestselling author of several books including WHAT SOUTHERN WOMEN KNOW (THAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD) and THE TOWN THAT CAME-A-COURTIN',...
Ronda Rich Ronda Rich, whose Georgia roots were planted around 1750, is the bestselling author of several books including WHAT SOUTHERN WOMEN KNOW (THAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD) and the wildly popular ST. SIMONS...
Paul Richardson Paul A. Richardson is professor of Music in the School of the Arts at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, where he teaches voice and church music. A fellow and past president of the Hymn...
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Roberts Robert C. Roberts came to Wheaton College as professor of philosophy and psychological studies in 1984, after eleven years at Western Kentucky State University. He has written four previous books...
W. Clifford Roberts, Jr. W. Clifford Roberts, Jr. is a retired Georgia history teacher with the Fulton County Public School System, and was named his school's Teacher of the Year in 2011. He holds a BA in Southern History...
Rady Roldan-Figueroa Rady Roldán-Figueroa is director of research and associate professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University’s School of Theology. He is a graduate of New Brunswick Theological Seminary...
Francesca Rollins Francesca Rollins is associate professor of Theatre at Mercer University. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Oregon. Rollins has been telling stories through...
Jack Roper John (Jack) Herbert Roper Sr. is Richardson Professor of American History Emeritus at Emory & Henry College in Appalachian Virginia. He holds a BA in History from the University of South Carolina,...
Creighton Rosental Creighton Rosental was inspired by the Socratic approach to philosophy of the buzzing horsefly attempting to wake the slumbering beast of society. He still pursues this goal, though mitigated...
Creighton Rosental Creighton Rosental is professor and chair of Philosophy and founding director of Ethics, Leadership, and Service at Mercer University. His research and teaching interests include history of...
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Stephen Roth Stephen Roth worked twelve years as a reporter covering politicians, business figures, and local eccentrics for newspapers in Missouri and Florida. Born in LaGrange, Georgia, he currently lives in...
Carol Ruckdeschel Carol Ruckdeschel first visited Cumberland Island in the late 1960s as a research assistant at Georgia State University, taking up residence in the early 1970s. Sea turtles were her first focus,...
Lori Eriksen Rush A life-long educator, Lori Eriksen Rush taught interior design and the history of interiors and furniture at The Art Institute of Atlanta where she also served as chair of the Interior Design...
Sally Russell Sally Russell is a former professor of French and English at Gainesville College in the University System of Georgia. She is the author of four books on Georgia life and history. Russell has lived...
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Peter Sajda Peter Šajda is senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard and its reception in the twentieth and...
Ferrol Sams Ferrol Sams is a physician, humorist storyteller, and best-selling novelist and is the author of seven books. Most notable is his trilogy of novels in which an eccentric and quixotic hero, Porter...
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Theresa Sanders Theresa Sanders is an associate professor of theology at Georgetown University. She earned her Ph.D. in Religion at Syracuse University. Her previous writings include Body and Belief: Why the Body...
Anathalee G. Sandlin Anathalee G. Sandlin has worked as artist-media liaison for the Alabama Band June Jams, Country Music Association music award shows, and Alabama Music Hall of Fame award shows. She is business...
Don A. Sanford Don A. Sanford† served as historian and historian-emeritus for the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society for twenty-two years.
William B. Sargeant William B. Sargeant attended the University of Florida and is currently the owner of Sargeant Farms, Inc., in Lakeland, Florida. His hobbies include geneology and Civil War history.
Fred Sauceman Fred Sauceman, a native of Greeneville, Tennessee, is senior writer, associate professor of Appalachian Studies, and news director for WETS-FM at East Tennessee State University. He has written and...
Fred W. Sauceman Fred W. Sauceman is a roaming journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker, author, and professor now living in Johnson City, Tennessee. He is a prolific chronicler of the foodways of Appalachia and the South.
Fred W. Sauceman Fred W. Sauceman celebrates the foodways and culture of his native Appalachia through books, magazine articles, newspaper columns, radio, television, and documentary films. His home base is the...
Jill Sauceman Jill Sauceman, a native of Hiltons, Virginia, earned her degree in Public Health from East Tennessee State University and did graduate work in Accounting. She has worked in accounting and historic...
T. Laine Scales T. Laine Scales is professor of Social Work in the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University. She also serves as codirector of the Baptist Scholars International Roundtable.
Anna Schachner Anna Schachner has published short fiction in many journals and magazines, including Puerto del Sol, Ontario Review, and The Sun, and she contributes articles about books and literary culture to...
David Schaeffer David Schaeffer is a trial attorney at the David Schaeffer Law Firm, LLC, and a mediator with Miles Mediation in Atlanta, Georgia. He received the 2015 Charles Watkins Award for his distinctive and...
David Schaeffer David Schaeffer practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia, for thirty-eight years and served as president of the Atlanta Bar Association. He graduated from Duke University and University of Virginia School...
David N. Schaeffer David N. Schaeffer is a trial attorney at the David Schaeffer Law Firm, LLC, and a mediator with Miles Mediation in Atlanta, Georgia. He received the 2015 Charles Watkins Award for his distinctive...
Christopher L. Schelin Christopher L. Schelin is dean of students at Starr King School for the Ministry in California and a senior research fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre in the Netherlands....
Timothy H. Scherman Timothy H. Scherman is associate professor and chair of English and Linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Duke University, Scherman's career-long...
Timothy H. Scherman Timothy H. Scherman is distinguished professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Duke University, his career-long recovery of the life and work of...
Arthur Scherr A historian at the City University of New York, Arthur Scherr has published four books and dozens of articles contributing to a deeper understanding of the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the...
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Doc Schneider Doc Schneider is a senior partner in the international law firm of King & Spalding LLP and a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He graduated from Mercer University’s School of Law in...
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Robert H. Scott Robert H. Scott is assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. His research interests include ethics, phenomenology, and comparative philosophy. He is coeditor of THE...
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J. H. Segar J. H. Segars’s many fine publications include In Search of Confederate Ancestors (author) and Forgotten Confederates: An Anthology about Black Southerners (coeditor).
William L. Self William L. Self is retired senior pastor of Johns Creek Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. A graduate of Stetson University (BA), Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (BD), and Candler...
Megan Sexton Megan Sexton was born in New York and grew up on the Florida Gulf coast. Her poetry and nonfiction have been widely published in anthologies and journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The...
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M. K. Shaddix, a fourth-generation Floridian, became interested in Southern Studies as a Master of Fine Arts student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She completed her...
Michael K. Shaffer Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War historian, instructor, lecturer, newspaper columnist, and author. He is a member of the Society of Civil War Historians, Historians of the Civil War Western...
David T. Shannon, Sr. David T. Shannon, Sr.† was a scholar, teacher, and administrator who served as president of Andover-Newton Theological School, Virginia Union University, and Allen University. His books include...
Jolly Kay Sharp Jolly Kay Sharp is professor of English at University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky.
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Daniel Shirley Daniel Shirley was born at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, and grew up in Anderson, South Carolina. Since graduating from Clemson University, he has worked in sports journalism in...
Walter B Shurden Walter B. Shurden is former chair of the department of Christianity, Callaway Professor of Christianity, and executive director of the Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University. He has also...
Tennille D. Shuster Tennille D. Shuster is professor of Graphic Design at Mercer University. She holds a BFA from James Madison University and an MFA from Florida Atlantic University. Shuster is an internationally...
Clara Silverstein Clara Silverstein is the author of WHITE GIRL: A STORY OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION and three cookbooks. Her work has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" and in publications including American...
Rosalind S. Simson Rosalind S. Simson is associate professor of Philosophy at Mercer University. Her recent work has focused primarily on a variety of issues at the intersection of ethics, gender, and law, ranging...
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Karen E. Smith Karen E. Smith is an honorary senior research fellow of the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion at Cardiff University. She has written widely on Baptist History and Christian Spirituality...
Loran Smith Loran Smith has spent most of his professional life at the University of Georgia as former assistant sports information director, business manager, and executive director of the Georgia Bulldog...
Matthew R. Smith Matthew R. Smith (creative editor) is assistant vice president for Marketing Communications at Mercer University.
Michael Buffalo Smith Michael Buffalo Smith created GRITZ Magazine in 1998, and was editor for thirteen years during which time he became known as "The Ambassador of Southern Rock." He has written many cover stories,...
Michael Buffalo Smith Michael Buffalo Smith is an author, journalist, and musician who was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina during the Southern Rock era, when his hometown heroes, The Marshall Tucker Band...
Michael Buffalo Smith Michael Buffalo Smith has authored a total of seven books on Southern music history. He was founder and publisher of both Gritz music magazine and Kudzoo magazine, and has written countless cover...
Michael Buffalo Smith Michael Buffalo Smith grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the home of the Marshall Tucker Band. His love of that group along with The Allman Brothers Band peaked his interest in the music...
Michael Buffalo Smith Michael Buffalo Smith has been a contributor to various magazines including Rolling Stone, Goldmine, and Mojo and is author of eleven books. Smith is a performing songwriter and editor of the...
R. T. Smith R. T. Smith is the author of over a dozen collections of poetry, most recently THE RED WOLF and IN THE NIGHT ORCHARD. Formerly writer-in-residence at Washington and Lee University, he was editor of...
Robert Smith, Jr. Robert Smith, Jr. serves as professor of Christian Preaching at Beeson Divinity School.
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Graydon F. Snyder Graydon F. Snyder, now retired, was dean and professor of New Testament at Bethany Theological Seminary and Chicago Theological Seminary. He earned his Th.D. in New Testament at Princeton...
Graydon F. Snyder Graydon F. Snyder (1930-2016) was dean and professor of New Testament at Bethany Theological Seminary and Chicago Theological Seminary. He earned his ThD in New Testament at Princeton Theological...
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Raymond R. Sommerville, Jr. Raymond R. Sommerville, Jr., Ph.D., is assistant professor of church history at Christian Theological Seminary inIndianapolis.
C. Edward Spann C. EDWARD SPANN is the retired dean of the College of Fine Arts at Dallas Baptist University. He has taught hymnology and has served as chairman of church music programs at Shorter College,...
Evanthia Speliotis Evanthia Speliotis is professor of Philosophy at Bellarmine University. She studied under Ronna Burger, writing on Plato's STATESMAN. Speliotis has published articles on Plato's SOPHIST, STATESMAN,...
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Devan Stahl Devan Stahl is assistant professor of Clinical Ethics in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in Health Care Ethics from St....
Matthew Stallard Matthew Stallard is assistant professor of English at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, where he teaches Renaissance and Medieval Literatures. He is the former assistant editor of Milton Quarterly.
Matthew Stallard Matthew Stallard is associate professor of English Instruction at Ohio University. When he is not busy tracking down Biblical references in English Renaissance literature, he is playing old-time...
Catherine Staples Catherine Staples is the author of THE RATTLING WINDOW and NEVER A NOTE FORFEIT. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and Academy of American...
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Bruce H. Stewart, Jr. BRUCE STEWART currently serves on the executive committee of the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta and is a member of the Patrick Cleburne Society. He is both a trustee and Civil War tour guide of...
Karen Stokes Karen Stokes, an archivist at the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston, has worked with historical manuscripts for over twenty years. She is the author of numerous articles, four...
Karen Stokes Karen Stokes, an archivist at the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston, is the author of several non-fiction books on South Carolina Confederate history. She has also authored works of...
Ronald H. Stone Ronald H. Stone, born and educated in Iowa, undertook graduate study at Union Seminary and Columbia University in New York City, where he served as Reinhold Niebuhr’s last teaching assistant and...
Ronald H. Stone Ronald H. Stone taught the social ethics of Paul Tillich as the John Witherspoon Professor of Christian Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Hearing Tillich preach and teach at Union...
Jill Stuckey Jill Stuckey is an enthusiast of energy efficiency, alternative energy, and an outdoor nature photographer. In 1992, she traded private industry for state employment and went to work for the...
Bert Randolph Sugar Bert Randolph Sugar, legendary sports writer and historian, is an iconic figure in the world of boxing. The author of over eighty books, sports columnist, and boxing film consultant and cameo...
Brian Suttell Brian Suttell is assistant professor of History and Success Coach at Ferrum College. He was the featured historian in the 2019 documentary film, "Hope’s City" about the history of Pamplin City,...
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William D. Taylor WILLIAM D. TAYLOR† was a native East Tennessean, whose ancestor served with the 59th Tennessee Infantry Regiment at Vicksburg. He was married to Darby O'Neil, and has two daughters: Ashley, a...
Bill Thames Bill Thames is a freelance writer and photographer who grew up attending schools worldwide. In 1962 his family settled in Ormond Beach, Florida, just minutes from Daytona Beach, the epicenter of a...
Charlotte C. S. Thomas Charlotte C. S. Thomas is professor of Philosophy, codirector of the McDonald Center for America Founding Principles, director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, and member of the...
Charlotte C. S. Thomas Charlotte C. S. Thomas is a professor of Philosophy at Mercer University, director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, and codirector of the McDonald Center for America’s Founding...
Charlotte C. S. Thomas Charlotte C. S. Thomas is a professor of Philosophy and co-director of the McDonald Center for America’s Founding Principles at Mercer University. She has been on the faculty of the College of...
Charlotte C.S. Thomas Charlotte C. S. Thomas is a professor of Philosophy at Mercer University. She is the director of the Great Books Program and also the codirector of the McDonald Center for America’s Founding...
Charlotte C.S. Thomas Charlotte C. S. Thomas is professor of Philosophy, director of the Great Books Program, and codirector of the McDonald Center for America’s Founding Principles at Mercer University. Her work...
Charlotte C.S. Thomas Charlotte C. S. Thomas is professor of Philosophy, director of the Great Books Program, and codirector of the McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles at Mercer University. Her work...
Emory M. Thomas, Regents Professor Emeritas of History, University of Georgia
Samuel Norman Thomas, Jr. Samuel Norman Thomas, Jr. has worked in the museum field for the past twenty-five years and has authored or coauthored seven works. He lives in Athens, Georgia, where he serves as curator of the...
C. Mildred Thompson C. Mildred Thompson (1881–1975) wrote her classic RECONSTRUCTION IN GEORGIA (1915) while embarked on a forty-year academic career at Vassar College, as both professor and dean. A New Deal Democrat...
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Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) lived and wrote in Concord, Massachusetts.
Janet Thorngate Janet Thorngate is president of the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society and former librarian of the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Library and Archives. She has degrees in English and History...
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John H. Timmerman John H. Timmerman is professor of English at Calvin College, where he teaches courses in American Literature and the American Novel. He serves on the review board of The Steinbeck Review. SEARCHING...
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George H. Tooze George H. Tooze was born in Boston and educated at Gordon College (BS), Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv), and Andover Newton Theological School (DMin). In forty years of pastoral...
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Tracy J. Trothen Tracy J. Trothen is associate professor of Theology and Ethics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Trothen holds a ThD degree from Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. She is author of...
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Reid S. Trulson Reid S. Trulson is the retired executive director/CEO of International Ministries. He previously served as the American Baptist representative to Europe in Austria and the Czech Republic, area...
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Dennis Tucker Dennis Tucker also earned his Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and currently teaches at Ouachita Baptist University.
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E. Frank Tupper E. Frank Tupper is professor of Theology at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He is the author of The Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.
James C. Turner James C. Turner is the director of the Old Governor’s Mansion and has served as an instructor of History at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. He holds an MA in History...
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Sandra L. Underwood Sandra L. Underwood is professor emerita of Art History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, located in St. Mary’s City, the site of the founding of the Maryland colony. Retirement brought her and...
William D. Underwood William D. Underwood (foreword) has led Mercer University during a period of dynamic growth and development since his appointment as Mercer's 18th president in 2006.
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Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven is executive director of the American Baptist Historical Society and the author of The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island Women in the Antislavery Network.
Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven, emerita director of the American Baptist Historical Society, has published on women’s history and abolitionism. Research on Philadelphia Baptists took her back to...
Barry Van Dusen Massachusetts artist Barry Van Dusen is the author and illustrator of FINDING SANCTUARY, based on visits to sixty-one of Mass Audubon's wildlife sanctuaries, nature centers, and museums. He is a...
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Gordon Van Ness is professor of English at Longwood University in Virginia. He has published four books on James Dickey, including the two-volume collection The One Voice of James Dickey: His...
Gordon Van Ness Gordon Van Ness was professor of English at Longwood University in Virginia, where he taught for thirty-one years before retiring in 2018. He is the author or editor of six books on James Dickey,...
Katherine Vande Brake Katherine Vande Brake is professor of English and Technical Communication at King College in Bristol, Tennessee..
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Richard Velkley Richard Velkley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in northern Kentucky. Educated at Cornell, Penn State, and Heidelberg, Germany, he has taught philosophy at Tulane University since 2007....
Krishnan Venkatesh Krishnan Venkatesh has taught Eastern and Western philosophy for three decades at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born in Malaysia to a Hakka Chinese mother and Brahmin Indian father,...
Krishnan Venkatesh Krishnan Venkatesh lives in the mountains of New Mexico and has taught at St. John's College, Santa Fe, for over thirty years. He is the author of DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE? (2019), a reading of the...
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Gary W. Waddey A lifelong resident of Nashville, Tennessee, Gary W. Waddey received a BA degree from Vanderbilt University in 1978. Shortly afterwards, he joined Northwestern Mutual where he served as a...
E.J. Wade E.J. Wade is an award-winning poet whose work has been published in the ANTHOLOGY OF APPALACHIAN WRITERS, Women Speak, Salvation South, and Callaloo Literary Journal. She holds an EdD in Disability...
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Bryan L. Wagoner Bryan L. Wagoner (PhD, Harvard University) is assistant professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy, and director of the Morrison-Novakovic Center for Faith and Public Policy at Davis & Elkins...
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Larry Walker Larry Walker, a native of Perry, Georgia, is the founding partner of the law firm, Walker Hulbert Gray & Moore. Walker holds BS and JD degrees from the University of Georgia and served as a...
Scott Walker Scott Walker is the director of the Institute of Life Purpose and senior lecturer at Mercer University. He earned a doctorate in adult education from the University of Georgia, specializing in...
Mark I. Wallace Marl I. Wallace is assistant professor and co-chair in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College.
Sylvia Walsh Sylvia Walsh taught philosophy and religion at Emory University and Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. She is the author of four books on Kierkegaard,...
Carl Ware As Coca-Cola Company Africa group president, Carl Ware was the architect of the soft drink giant’s disinvestment from apartheid South Africa, hastening the end to the tyrannical regime. He holds...
Austin Warren Austin Warren† (1899–1986), a revered university teacher and a compelling literary critic, taught for most of his career at major Midwestern universities, before retiring to Providence, Rhode...
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Zack C. Waters Zack C. Waters, a former attorney, teacher, and college professor has written three books and more than thirty published articles on the Civil War. He lives in Rome, Georgia.
Zack C. Waters Zack C. Waters, a native of Ocala, Florida, is a former attorney, teacher, and college professor who has written several books and more than thirty published articles on the Civil War. He lives in...
Chris Watson Chris Watson is campaign director with the National Parks Conservation Association's southeast regional office in Knoxville, Tennessee. With the organization since 2010, he directs projects...
JoAnn Ford Watson JoAnn Ford Watson is the H. R. Gill Family Professor of Theology at Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio. She received her PhD degree from Northwestern University. Watson is an ordained...
Mary Alexandra Watt Mary Alexandra Watt is professor of Italian Studies at the University of Florida. She holds JD, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto. Her research reflects a lifelong fascination with...
Aaron Douglas Weaver Aaron Douglas Weaver is communications director of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his PhD in Religion and Politics from Baylor University. Weaver is the author...
Aaron D. Weaver Aaron Douglas Weaver serves as communications director for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and teaches at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Weaver holds a PhD in Religion and...
C. Douglas Weaver C. Douglas Weaver is the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Religion at Baylor University. He has taught Baptist history and other courses in the history of Christianity for...
C. Douglas Weaver C. Douglas Weaver is professor of Religion at Baylor University (2003-present). A Baptist historian who also focuses on Pentecostal studies, he is author of IN SEARCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH:...
C. Douglas Weaver C. Douglas Weaver is interim chair of the department of Religion and professor of Baptist Studies at Baylor University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including BAPTISTS AND THE HOLY...
C. Douglas Weaver C. Douglas Weaver is the Barbara Jo Beard Driskell Research Chair in Historical/Baptist Studies and department chair of Religion at Baylor University. His books include BAPTISTS AND THE HOLY...
Heidi Amelia-Anne Weber Heidi Amelia-Anne Weber is professor of History in the department of Global Studies at SUNY: Orange, where she was awarded the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the New York...
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Jack Weston Jack Weston has collected Allman Brothers Band memorabilia for more than twenty-five years. He has also contributed images from his music memorabilia collections for various CD and DVD releases....
Kelly Whiddon Kelly Whiddon is a writer and professor from Macon, Georgia. She has published poetry in Crab Orchard Review, Poetry International, Meridian, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Southern Poetry Review,...
Jaclyn Weldon White Jaclyn Weldon White is the author of eight books and numerous magazine articles, and has twice won the Georgia Author of the Year award. White is a jewelry designer and has also been an avid herb...
Jaclyn Weldon White Jaclyn Weldon White is the author of eight books, including two true crimes, three biographies, two mystery novels, and a book on herbs. She is a two-timewinner of the Georgia Author of the Year...
Jaclyn Weldon White Jaclyn Weldon White is a former police officer and court administrator. The author of eleven books, including true crime, novels, and biographies, she is a two-time Georgia Author of the Year...
John B. White John B. White is the Harold and Dottie Riley Professor in Practical Theology and faculty director of the Sport Chaplaincy/Ministry Program and the Youth Spirituality and Sports Institute (funded by...
Julia Frazier White Julia Frazier White, retired systems deveolpment manager and project manager, is author of Forgiveness, Learning How to Forgive and Poems, Prose, and Prayers.
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Jan Whitt Jan Whitt is a professor of Journalism, Literature, and Media Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is author of seven books and numerous journal articles about American literature,...
Jan Whitt An award-winning teacher, Jan Whitt is a professor of Literature and Media Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of eight books and numerous articles about film,...
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Robert E. Wilder Robert E. “Bobby” Wilder is a native of Fort Valley, Georgia, a graduate of Brewton-Parker Junior College, Mercer University, and Peabody Teachers College. Wilder was also an athlete in basketball,...
David Williams David Williams is professor of history at Valdosta State University where for more than a quarter-century he has taught Old South, Civil War, and Georgia history. He holds a PhD from Auburn...
David Williams David Williams is professor of History at Valdosta State University, where for thirty years he has taught Old South, Civil War, and Georgia History. He is author of eleven books on the Civil War...
David Williams David Williams is retired professor of History at Valdosta State University, who for thirty years taught Georgia history, the Old South, and the Civil War Era. His previous books include GEORGIA'S...
Philip Lee Williams Philip Lee Williams is the author of nineteen published books, including twelve novels and three volumes of poetry. A member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Williams has won a number of...
Philip Lee Williams Philip Lee Williams is the much-honored author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. He won the 2004 Michael Shaara Award for the best Civil War novel published in the...
Philip Lee Williams Philip Lee Williams is the author of twenty-one published volumes of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. He has won numerous state and national awards for his books. His volume of poetry, THE...
Sam A. Williams At the helm of one of the nation's most influential chambers of commerce, Sam A. Williams led Atlanta, Georgia's high-profile business community for almost two decades. Earning a national...
Michael E. Williams Sr. Michael E. Williams, Sr. is professor of History at Dallas Baptist University. He is the coeditor of TURNING POINTS IN BAPTIST HISTORY published by Mercer University Press (2008) and author of I....
Michael E. Williams Sr. Michael E. Williams, Sr. is professor of History at Dallas Baptist University. He is the editor of WITNESSES TO THE BAPTIST HERITAGE, co-editor of TURNING POINTS IN BAPTIST HISTORY, and author of...
Williamson Scott C. Williamson (Ph.D., Yale University) is Robert H. Walkup Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.
Scott C. Williamson Scott C. Williamson is the Robert H. Walkup Professor of Theological Ethics at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and author of THE NARRATIVE LIFE: THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF...
Dan B. Wimberly Dan B. Wimberly is a retired professor of History from Oklahoma Wesleyan University where he taught for twenty years. He holds a PhD in History from Texas Tech University and is author of FRONTIER...
Renea Winchester Renea Winchester is the award-winning author of In the Garden with Billy. She is the recipient of the Appalachian Writer and Denny Plattner awards. Her work has aired on Georgia's WAB90.1FM....
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Wayne Winkler Wayne Winkler is a descendant of Melungeons from Hancock County, Tennessee, past-president of the Melungeon Heritage Association, and author of WALKING TOWARD THE SUNSET: THE MELUNGEONS OF...
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Journalist William W. “Billy” Winn has been unearthing important chapters in Southern history for half a century. During his distinguished writing career, he has authored hundreds of...
Geoff Wisner Geoff Wisner is a board member of the Thoreau Society and the editor of THOREAU'S WILDFLOWERS (Yale) and THOREAU'S ANIMALS. (Yale). He earned a degree in English and American Literature from...
Veronica L. Womack Veronica L. Womack attended the University of Alabama where she received her BS in Public Relations, MS in Public Administration, and PhD in Political Science with areas of concentration in...
Gerald C. Wood Gerald C. Wood , distinguished professor emeritus of English and former director of the Horton Foote Center at Carson-Newman College, edited a casebook on Foote and a collection of the writer’s...
Annie Woodford Annie Woodford is the author of BOOTLEG (Groundhog Poetry Press), a runner-up for the 2020 Weatherford Award for Appalachian poetry. A 2017 winner of the Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Writers,...
William Woolfitt William Woolfitt is associate professor of English at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. He is the author of two other books of poetry: BEAUTY STRIP (Texas Review Press, 2014) and CHARLES OF...
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William Wright is author of seven other collections of poems, three of which are full-length works, including Night Field Anecdote and Bledsoe. He received degrees from the University of...
William Wright William Wright is author or editor of over twenty volumes of poetry, including the award-winning TREE HERESIES (Mercer, 2015). Other recent books include NIGHT FIELD ANECDOTE (Louisiana Literature)...
William Wright William Wright is author or editor of over twenty nationally published books, with several forthcoming. Wright was named writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee in 2016. Later, he worked...
Ben Wynne A native of Florence, Mississippi, Ben Wynne serves as associate professor of History at the University of North Georgia. He is the author of A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi...
Ben Wynne Ben Wynne is a native of Florence, Mississippi, and serves as professor of History at the University of North Georgia in Gainesville. He specializes in Antebellum American Studies, the American...
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Marly Youmans Author of fourteen books, Marly Youmans has been called “the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers” (Books & Culture). Her recent novels are GLIMMERGLASS (“resonant, beautiful”—Margo...
Andrea Young Andrea Young is an attorney, public policy advocate, and professor of Practice at Georgia State University. For more than thirty years she has been a leader in government and the non-profit sector...
Andrew Young Andrew Young was a key aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Atlanta’s Congressional representative, two-term Mayor, and co-chair of the Olympic Games in...
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Malcolm Clemens Young Malcolm Clemens Young is a theologian and an Episcopal priest who has served churches in Massachusetts and California. Since 2001, he has been rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Los Altos,...
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Karen Spears Zacharias Karen Spears Zacharias is the author of several books including the bestselling WILL JESUS BUY ME A DOUBLEWIDE? iand MOTHER OF RAIN, winner of the Weatherford Award for Best in Appalachian Fiction...
Karen Spears Zacharias Karen Spears Zacharias is a Georgia-raised Gold Star daughter. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and on CNN, National Public Radio, and Good Morning America. Her 2013 novel, MOTHER...
Karen Spears Zacharias Karen Spears Zacharias is an American writer whose work focuses on women and justice. She holds an MA in Appalachian Studies from Shepherd University and an MA in Creative Media Practice from the...
Karen Spears Zacharias Karen Spears Zacharias is an American writer whose work focuses on women and justice. She holds an MA in Appalachian Studies from Shepherd University and an MA in Creative Media Practice from the...
John Zheng John Zheng is professor of English and chair of the Mississippi Valley State University department of English & Foreign Languages. He is the editor of six books including THE OTHER WORLD OF RICHARD...
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Susan Beckham Zurenda Susan Beckham Zurenda taught English for thirty-three years and now works as a book publicist for Magic Time Literary Publicity. A recipient of several regional awards for her fiction, including...
Susan Beckham Zurenda Susan Beckham Zurenda taught English for thirty-three years and now works as a book publicist for Magic Time Literary Publicity. A recipient of several regional awards for her fiction, including...
Susan Beckham Zurenda Susan Beckham Zurenda taught English for thirty-three years to college and high school students. Her debut novel, BELLS FOR ELI, has received several awards including first place for Best First...

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