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Allen Mendenhall is a writer and attorney who serves as an associate dean of the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University.
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Sarah Moore was born in Georgia, the first generation to reside on warm, flat land. Her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents come from the mountains of West Virginia. If she were to pick where it feels most like “home,” it would be this region. A graduate student and seventh grade English teacher, she also cherishes her family and two dogs, one adorable chihuahua and one pitbull.
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Julia Nunnally Duncan is a Western North Carolina freelance writer, whose ten books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry explore life in a small Southern town. Her 1960s upbringing in a working class family plays a prominent role in her work. She has essays and poems appearing in current issues of Smoky Mountain Living Magazine, WNC Magazine, The Backwoodsman Magazine, World War One Illustrated, blazeVOX Journal, and Arlington Literary Journal. A new collection of essays All We Have Loved is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in November 2023. Julia lives in Marion, NC, with her husband, Steve, a mountain woodcarver. They enjoy spending time outdoors and with their daughter, Annie.
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Scott Oglesby is an assistant nonfiction editor for Bellevue Literary Review (BLR). A NYC transplant from Louisiana, his varied work history includes stints as a disability analyst, actor, singer, photographer, teacher, homemaker, and café-owner, along with other sketchy side-gigs, all before publishing his first novel, Riding High (ridinghigh.net). He has also written nonfiction and humor columns for Manhattan weeklies: West Side Spirit, The Villager, and Village Sun. The literary review, Gravel, published his story, Divorcing Rhonda, and his essay, The Best That Love Could, was also produced as a podcast. His critique of David Amram’s book, Upbeat, appeared in American Book Review; Outpost19 published his short memoir, Summer Job, in their 2023 anthology, Rooted 2: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction. Currently, he’s working on his memoir, Telling Dixie Goodbye.