Featured Author – Appalachian Review

A Great Distance

Wiley Cash ♦

Fall 2020 ♦

Featured Author, Fiction

for Daniel Wallace When she was six years old, she spent two nights lost in the woods. Her mother and father had decided to camp in the Smoky Mountains for the weekend, leaving Raleigh on a June morning and arriving at the park entrance in mid-afternoon, just in time to…

A Conversation with Denise Giardina

Jason Kyle Howard ♦

Fall 2016 ♦

Featured Author, Interview

Denise Giardina is not one to mince words. For nearly four decades, she has been speaking truth to power throughout Appalachia and beyond in her art and social activism, and for a short time, even on the political stump as the Mountain Party candidate for governor of West Virginia. A…

A Mountaintop Experience

Denise Giardina ♦

Fall 2016 ♦

Creative Nonfiction, Featured Author

When God created heaven and earth, he looked at his handiwork and declared it “good.” Each act of creation received this word of divine satisfaction. As time passed, only one part of God’s creation became the subject of disappointment and anger— ourselves. But after the destruction of the Flood, God…

In Conversation: bell hooks and Laverne Cox

bell hooks ♦

Fall 2015 ♦

Featured Author, Interview

Originally published in November 2015. Earlier this spring, bell hooks invited the award-winning actress, producer, and advocate Laverne Cox to speak at the private opening of The bell hooks Institute, a new center in Berea dedicated to critical thinking and contemplating the intersectional issues of race, gender, and class. The…