Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia - Softcover

Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia

Charles Dodd White is the author of Lambs of Men: A Novel.

Silas House is the Author of Crazy Quilt and other novels set in Appalachia. Chair of Appalachian Studies at Berea College and on the fiction faculty at Spalding Universitys MFA in Creative

Writing

Chris Holbrook is the author of Hell and Ohio, and Upheaval, short stories set in Appalachia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Holbrook is associate professor of English at Morehead State University

Valerie Nieman has received an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry, two Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes in fiction, and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry. A graduate of West Virginia University and the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, she teaches writing at N.C. A&T State University and is a regular workshop leader at the John C. Campbell Folk School and the North Carolina Writers Network. She is poetry editor for the online/print literary journal, Prime Number.

Chris Offut's work has beenrecognized by fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. His works has also received a Whiting Writer award, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for fiction that takes risks. Hes also written comic books, essays, stage plays, and screenplays. His work appears in many anthologies, is widely translated, and taught in high schools and college.