Silas House
Silas House is one of Kentucky’s best-known literary figures: author of bestselling novels, plays and a non-fiction book; a former state poet laureate; an essayist in national newspapers and magazines; […]
Pamela Papka Sexton
Pamela Peyton Papka Sexton was a writer, poet, artist and community volunteer who helped create the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning in Lexington and was a dynamic advocate for […]
Marcia Thornton Jones
Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey were faculty members at a Lexington private school in the late 1980s when they began talking one day about children’s books: what they liked, […]
Lowell Harrison
Lowell Harrison was an influential Kentucky historian who wrote or edited 15 books and taught history at Western Kentucky University for two decades. He also published 115 articles in journals. […]
Jeff Worley
When Jeff Worley was an English major at Wichita State University in the late 1960s, he made a little money playing guitar and singing, mostly in bars around his Kansas […]
Debbie Dadey
Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey were faculty members at a Lexington private school in the late 1980s when they began talking one day about children’s books: what they liked, […]
Frederick Smock
Frederick Smock was a Kentucky poet laureate, a literary journal editor and a Bellarmine University professor whose straightforward poetry lyrically evoked the natural world. “As soon as I met Fred […]
Ronald Eller
Ron Eller’s German and English ancestors were in Appalachia by the mid 1700s, and his Cherokee ancestors were there for millennia before that. So, as the first member of his […]
Frank X Walker
Frank X Walker was approaching middle age when he finally acknowledged his calling as a writer. Walker, 63, had been writing since he was a boy creating his own comic […]
Crystal Wilkinson
When Crystal Wilkinson was growing up on her grandparents’ farm in Casey County, there were no playmates nearby. So she would walk to Indian Creek, talk to the minnows and […]
