Listen Here

by Sandra L. Ballard

  NF “As Country as I Could Sing.” Growin’ Up Country, ed. Jim Axelrod. Clintwood, Va.: Council of the Southern Mountains, 1973.

  PAMELA DUNCAN (1961–) N.C.

  F Plant Life (New York: Delacourt, 2003)

  F Moon Women (New York: Delacourt, 2001)

  ELOISE BUCKNER EBBS (N.C.)

  F Carolina Mountain Breezes (Asheville, N.C.: Miller Press, 1929)

  KELLY A. ELLIS (1964–) (KY.), AFFRILACHIAN POET

  NF Womanist Conjure: Voodoo Narratives in the Fiction of Black Women Writers (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Kentucky, 2001)

  WILSON GAGE [PEN NAME OF MARY Q. STEELE] (1922–1992) (TENN.)

  YA My Stars, It's Mrs. Gaddy (Greenwillow Books, 1991)

  YA Journey Outside (Viking, 1969)

  JOANNA GALDONE (TENN.)

  YA The Tailypo: A Ghost Story (Clarion Books, 1977)

  ELLEN GLASGOW (1873–1945) (VA./W.VA.)

  F Vein of Iron (New York: Harcourt, 1935)

  F Barren Ground (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1925)

  F The Battle-ground (New York: Doubleday, 1902)

  DORIS GOVE (1944–) (TENN.)

  NF A Water Snake's Year (New York: Atheneum, 1991)

  MICHELLE Y. GREEN (1953–) (KY.)

  SR Tell It on the Mountain: Appalachian Women Writers (Whitesburg, Ky.: WMMT-FM, Appalshop, 1995)

  YA Willie Pearl (Temple Hills, Md.: William Ruth & Co., 1990)

  SARAH OGAN GUNNING (1910–1983)

  NF “My Name is Sarah Ogan Gunning,” Sing Out! 25:2 (1976): 15–16.

  GAIL E. HALEY (1939–) (N.C.)

  YA Mountain Jack Tales (New York: Dutton, 1992)

  YA Jack and the Bean Tree (New York: Crown, 1986)

  ALBERTA PIERSON HANNUM (1906–1985) (OHIO/N.C./W.VA.)

  NF Look Back with Love: A Recollection of the Blue Ridge, (New York: Vanguard, 1969), essays

  F Roseanna McCoy (New York: H. Holt, 1947)

  F The Gods and One (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941)

  F The Hills Step Lightly (New York: Morrow, 1934)

  F Thursday April (New York: Harper, 1931)

  VICKY HAYES (KY.)

  P Night Winds (1976)

  JANE HICKS (1952–) (TENN.)

  P Published in Now and Then, Wind, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Iron Mountain Review, Red Crow Review, Sow's Ear, Appalachian Journal, A! Magazine for Arts and Antiques, and Appalachian Heritage

  HELEN B. HISCOE (1919–) (GA./W.VA.)

  NF Appalachian Passage (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1991), memoir

  JULIETTE ANN HOLLEY (W.VA.)

  YA Jamie Lemme See (Radford, Va.: Commonwealth Press, 1975)

  ELIZABETH HOWARD (1933–) (TENN.)

  P Anemones (Memphis: Grandmother Earth Creations, 1998)

  REBECCA DOUGHERTY HYATT (TENN.)

  F Marthy Lou's Kiverlid (Morristown, Tenn.: Triangle Press, 1937; rpt. 1963), preserves Tenn. and N.C. mountain folklore and speech from around 1900 to 1910

  DOT JACKSON (N.C./S.C.)

  NF Keowee: The Story of the Keowee River Valley in Upstate South Carolina (Greenville, S.C.: Michael Hembree & Dot Jackson, 1995)

  AUNT MOLLY JACKSON (1880–1960) (KY.)

  SR Aunt Molly Jackson (Library of Congress, 1972)

  SR The Songs and Stories of Aunt Molly Jackson (1961)

  MAGGIE POGUE JOHNSON (VA./W.VA.)

  P Virginia Dreams: Lyrics for the Idle Hour, Tales of the Time Told in Rhyme (John M. Leonard, 1910), published online as part of the Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library, http://digilib.nypl.org:80/dynaweb/digs/wwm9712/@GenericBookTextView/130;pt=127

  PATRICIA A. JOHNSON (VA.)

  P Stain My Days Blue (Philadelphia: Ausdoh Press, 1999)

  P Spirit Rising (1999)

  JAN KARON (1937–) (N.C.)

  F At Home in Mitford (Elgin, Ill.: Lion Pub, 1994), the first of the Mitford series of novels

  LOU KASSEM (1931–) (TENN./VA.)

  YA Listen for Rachel (New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1986)

  LORETTA LYNN (KY.)

  NF Still Woman Enough: A Memoir (New York: Hyperion, 2002), written with Patsi Bale Cox

  NF Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (New York: Warner, 1976), memoir written with George Vecsey

  ALICE MACGOWAN (1858–1932)

  F Judith of the Cumberlands (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908)

  SANDRA MASHBURN (1935–) (W.VA.), EDITOR OF KANAWHA REVIEW

  P Controlled Flight (Alms House Press)

  P Undertow (March Street Press)

  MARGARET MCDOWELL [LITTLE] (W.VA.)

  P Dandelions Under the Snow

  P Our Song, Too (1974)

  P View from College Avenue (1973)

  BONNI MCKEOWN (W. VA.)

  NF Peaceful Patriot: The Story of Tom Bennett (Charleston, W.Va.: Mountain State Press, 1980)

  P Pieces: A West Virginia Woman Looks at Love, People, and Politics (Beckley, W.Va.: McKeown, 1978; rpt. Capon Springs, W.Va.: Partnership Foundation, 1982)

  MARAT MOORE (1955–) (TENN./W.VA.)

  NF Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work (New York: Twayne, 1996)

  KATHLEEN MOORE MOREHOUSE (1904–2002) (N.C.)

  F Rain on the Just (New York: Lee Furman, 1936; rpt. Southern Illinois Press, 1980)

  SARAH ELIZABETH MORRISON (1833–?)

  YA Chilhowee Boys (New York: Crowell, 1893), wagon trip across the Blue Ridge from N.C. to Tenn. in 1811, based on family records

  LOUISE [R. SANDERS] MURDOCH (KY.)

  F Almena of Gabriel's Run (New York: Meridian, 1917)

  PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR (MD./W.VA.)

  YA Shiloh (New York: Atheneum, 1991), winner of the 1992 Newbury Award

  VALERIE NIEMAN (W.VA.)

  F Survivors: A Novel (Midlothian, Va.: Van Neste Books, 2000)

  JUDY ODUM (1942–) (TENN.)

  P Blossom & Vine (Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Iris Press, 1990)

  F “The Killing Jar,” in A Southern Appalachian Reader, ed. Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1988)

  LISA J. PARKER (1972–) (VA.)

  P Published in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Appalachian Journal, PoetLore, Now & Then, recipient of the 1996 Randall Jarrell Prize in Poetry, 1997 Academy of Poets Prize, 1999 Allen Tate Memorial Prize in Poetry

  DOLLY PARTON (TENN.)

  NF Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business (New York: HarperCollins, 1994)

  YA Coat of Many Colors (New York: HarperCollins, 1994)

  EDWINA D. PENDARVIS (1944–) (W.VA.)

  P Like the Mountains of China (Blair Mountain Press, 2003)

  P Joyride in Human Landscapes: Three Books of Poems (Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 1997)

  P Coruscations, winner of the 1995 West Virginia Writers’ Competition

  MARIA LOUISE POOL (1841–1898) (N.C.)

  F Against Human Nature (New York: Harper, 1895), set partly in Asheville, N.C.

  BONNIE PROUDFOOT (W.VA.)

  F “Watching Baseball, Thinking About Men,” best short story of 1995 in The Best of West Virginia Writers

  F “Goshen Road,” M.A. Thesis, West Virginia Univ., 1994

  CAROLYN REEDER (1937–) (VA.)

  YA Grandpa's Mountain (New York: Macmillan, 1991)

  YA Shades of Gray (New York: Macmillan, 1989)

  RITA SIZEMORE RIDDLE (1941–) (VA.)

  P Aluminum Balloons (Blacksburg, Va.: Pocahontas Press, 1996)

  F Pieces for Emma (Radford, Va.: Radford University College of Arts and Sciences, 1994)

  P Soot and Sunshine (Radford, Va.: Radford University College of Arts and Sciences, 1993)

  CHARLOTTE T. ROSS (N.C.)

  VR/D From My Grandmother's Mother Onto Me (video, Cinema Guild, 1990), with Clarinda Ross-Clark

  NF Bibliography of Southern Appalachia (Boone, N.C.: Appalach
ian Consortium Press, 1976)

  GWYN HYMAN RUBIO (GA./KY.)

  F Icy Sparks (New York: Penguin, 1998)

  BRENDA A. SAYLOR (KY.)

  VR Mountain Shadow: Four Appalachian Artists (Cincinnati: TV Image, 1997), videotape by Dorothy Weil and Jane Goetzman

  P Poems of My People (Cincinnati : Riverside Books, 1993)

  ALVINA SECKAR (W.VA./OHIO/PA.)

  YA Zuska of the Burning Hills (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1952), daughter of immigrant Czech coal miners

  BETH TASHERY SHANNON (KY./CAL.)

  F short fiction in Chicago Review

  F “Bons,” in The Pushcart Prize, III: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (Yonkers, N.Y.: Pushcart Press, 1978)

  SUSAN SHEPPARD (1949–) (W.VA.)

  P From the House of Heaven and Earth: Poems (http://home.wirefire.com/pooka, 1991)

  NF The Phoenix Cards (Destiny Books, 1990)

  P Book of Shadows, Book of Dreams (Westfield, N.J.: Merging Media, 1979)

  VIVIAN SHIPLEY (KY./TENN./CONN.)

  P Fair Haven (Negative Capability Press, 2000)

  P Crazy Quilt (Hanover Press, 1999)

  P How Many Stones? (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1998)

  P Devil's lane (Negative Capability Press, 1996)

  P Poems Out of Harlan County (Ithaca House, 1989)

  P Jack Tales (Greenfield Review Press, 1982)

  PATRICIA SHIRLEY (1939–) (TENN.)

  P Mary Pearl Kline (Big Timber, Mont.: Seven Buffaloes Press, 1990)

  F Dear Flora Mae and Other Stories (Big Timber, Mont.: Seven Buffaloes Press, 1987)

  P Pearl (Big Timber, Mont.: Seven Buffaloes Press, 1986)

  BETTY [NANCE] SMITH (1926–) (N.C.)

  SR With You Again (Hot Springs, N.C.: Bluff Mountain Music, 2002)

  NF Jane Hicks Gentry: A Singer Among Singers (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1998)

  SR Both Sides: Then and Now (Bluff Mountain Music, 1994)

  SR A Bluff Mountain Christmas (Bluff Mountain Music, 1988)

  SR Psaltry Concert (Bluff Mountain Music, 1983)

  SR For My Friends of Song (June Appal Records, 1977)

  SR Betty Smith: Songs Traditionally Sung in North Carolina (Folk Legacy Records, 1975)

  DEBORAH SMITH (GA.)

  F On Bear Moutain: A Novel (New York: Little, Brown, 2001)

  DORIS BUCHANAN SMITH (1934–2002) (GA.)

  YA Return to Bitter Creek (New York: Viking Kestrel, 1986)

  YA The First Hard Times (New York: Viking, 1983), ALA Notable Book

  YA Last Was Lloyd (New York: Viking, 1981), School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

  YA A Taste of Blackberries (1973), Georgia Children's Book Award

  LILLIAN SMITH (1897–1966) (GA.)

  F Strange Fruit (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944)

  ANNA EGAN SMUCKER (W.VA.)

  NF History of West Virginia (West Virginia Humanities Council, 1997), written for new adult readers

  F No Star Nights, illus. Steve Johnson (New York: Knopf, 1989), winner of the 1990 International Reading Association Children's Book Award

  DEBORAH HALE SPEARS (KY./OHIO)

  P Between Comets

  P Rain Dancers, Earth Blankets (chapbook, 1988)

  P Spring Passages, Unguided Tours

  ANNE BETHEL SPENCER (1882–1975) (W.VA./VA.)

  P Time's Unfolding Garden: Anne Spencer's Life and Poetry, ed. J. Lee Greene (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1977)

  MARY JO STEPHENS (KY./OHIO)

  YA Witch of the Cumberlands (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974)

  YA Moccasin Tracks (New York: Dodd Mead, 1958)

  JULIA MONTGOMERY STREET (1898–) (N.C.)

  F Fiddler's Fancy (Chicago: Follett, 1955)

  JEAN THOMAS (1881–1982) (KY.)

  NF Blue Ridge Country (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1942)

  NF Ballad Makin’ in the Mountains of Kentucky (New York: H. Holt, 1939; rpt. New York: Oak Publications, 1964)

  NF The Traipsin’ Woman (New York: Dutton, 1933)

  NF Devil's Ditties: Being Stories of the Kentucky Mountain People (Chicago: W.W. Hatfield, 1931; rpt. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976)

  ALLISON THORPE (KY.)

  P Thoughts While Swinging a Wild Child in a Green Mesh Hammock: Poems of Rebirth from the Bootheels of Appalachia (London, Ky.: Janze Publications, 1991), with a foreword by Jim Wayne Miller

  JUANITA TOBIN (1915–) (N.C.)

  P & F License My Roving Hands: Poems and Stories (Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, 2000)

  P & F Ransom Street Quartet: Poems and Stories (Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers, 1995)

  P Four Contemporary Poets: Sharon Olds, Eleanor Wilner, Maddie Gomez, Juanita Tobin (Flushing, N.Y.: La Vida Press, 1984)

  SUSAN O'DELL UNDERWOOD (1962–) (TENN.)

  F Genesis Road (unpublished novel-in-progress)

  P Light and Sound (M.F.A. thesis, UNC-Greensboro, 1987)

  CHERYL WARE (W.VA.)

  YA Flea Circus Summer (New York: Orchard, 1997), the first book in the Venola Mae series, all set in West Virginia

  EMMY WEST & CHRISTINE GOVAN (TENN.)

  F Danger Downriver (New York: Viking, 1972)

  RUTH WHITE (1942–) (VA.)

  YA Belle Prater's Boy (New York: Farrar, 1996) Newberry Honor Book

  YA Weeping Willow (New York: Farrar, 1992) ALA Best Book for Young Adults

  YA Sweet Creek Holler (New York: Farrar, 1988)

  CRYSTAL WILKINSON (1962–) (KY.)

  F Water Street (London: Toby Press, 2002)

  F Blackberries, Blackberries (London: Toby Press, 2000)

  LANA WITT (KY.)

  F The Heart of a Thirsty Woman (New York: Scribner, 1999)

  F Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones (New York: Scribner, 1996)

  CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON (1840–1894) (OHIO/EUROPE)

  F For the Major, A Novelette (New York Harper, 1883), set in western N.C. in 1860s

  KRISTIN CAMITTA ZIMET (TENN./VA.)

  P Take in My Arms the Dark: Poems (Abingdon, Va.: Sow's Ear Press, 1999)

  ISABEL ZUBER (N.C.)

  F Salt (New York: Picador, 2002)

  P Oriflamb (Asheville: Groves Print, N.C. Writers Network, 1987)

  A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Alexander, Maxine, ed. Speaking for Ourselves: Women of the South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

  Askins, Donald, and David Morris, eds. New Ground. Co-published by Southern Appalachia Writers’ Co-operative and Mountain Review, 1977.

  Baber, Bob Henry, George Ella Lyon, and Gurney Norman, eds. Old Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994.

  Baber, Bob Henry and Jim Webb, eds. Mucked. Williamson, WV: Southern Appalachian Writers Co-op / Herperus Press, 1978.

  Bain, Robert, Joseph M. Flora, and Louis D. Rubin Jr., eds. Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

  Beaver, Patricia D., guest editor. “Special Issue: Appalachia and the South: Place, Gender, Pedagogy.” National Women's Studies Association Journal 11.3 (fall 1999).

  Best, Bill, ed. One Hundred Years of Appalachian Visions, 1897-1996. Berea, KY: Appalachian Imprints, 1997. 2nd ed., 2000.

  Bickley, Ancella R., and Lynda Ann Ewen, eds. Memphis Tennessee Garrison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001.

  Billings, Dwight B., Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford, eds. Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Region. Foreword by Ronald D. Eller. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

  Campbell, Diana Kaye. “‘Mutual Answerability’: Aesthetics, Ethics, Transgredients from Mikhal Bakhtin to Lee Smith to Leslie Marmon Silko.” Ph.D. Diss. University of North Carolina, Greensboro. 1999. [Chapter 2 focuses on Lee Smith's The Devil's Dream.]

  Catching the Crow: a Collection of the 1982 Winning Entries in the West Virginia Writers’ Annual C
ompetition [1982]