Ronald D. 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 […]
David Dick

David Dick spent nearly two decades as a globetrotting CBS correspondent during the golden age of television news. Then he moved home to Bourbon County and launched several new careers. […]
Naomi Wallace

Naomi Wallace, the daughter and granddaughter of Louisville journalists, knew early that writing was the best way for her to express herself and her values. But she thought it would […]
Gray Zeitz

Gray Zeitz thinks the best way to experience a poem is to hear it read aloud. But he has focused his career on the second-best way. “The second-best is to […]
Mike Mullins

Mike Mullins didn’t start the Appalachian Writers Workshop; Hall of Fame writer Albert Stewart did that. He didn’t teach at the workshop; Hall of Fame writers Harriette Simpson Arnow, James […]
A.B. Guthrie

A.B. Guthrie, Jr. moved to Kentucky in 1926 to become a reporter for the Lexington Leader, where he was to spend the next 17 years as city editor, editorial writer, and […]
Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was among Kentucky’s most versatile writers and personalities in the first half of the 20thcentury. He was a journalist, essayist, syndicated columnist, novelist, poet, script writer, actor, […]
Jean Ritchie

Jean Ritchie attracted national attention not only as a songwriter and performer, but for her work popularizing traditional Appalachian ballads, many of which had their roots in the British Isles […]