MORE WOMEN WRITING IN APPALACHIA

OTHER VOICES TO STUDY

Many other women writers throughout the Appalachian region are worthy of being included in this book, which could easily have been twice as large. Some of the writers have not yet published a book and others are widely recognized. This list of selected titles is in no way comprehensive; it is merely a starting point for further study. New writers are constantly emerging. The voices listed here also deserve to be heard.

ABBREVIATIONS

P	poetry
F	fiction
YA	young adult fiction
NF	nonfiction
D	drama
SR	sound recording
VR	video recording

GAIL GALLOWAY ADAMS (1943–) (W.VA.)

F The Purchase of Order (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1988), won Flannery O'Connor Award

GAIL AMBURGEY (W.VA.)

P We're Alright But We Ain't Special: Poems by three women from Appalachia [Gail V. Amburgey, Mary Jane Coleman, Pauletta Hansel] (Beckley, W.Va.: Mountain Union Books, 1976)

P Some Poems by Some Women [Gail V. Amburgey, Alice May Holdren Oglesby, Bonni V. McKeown, Leslie Thornhill Graham, F. Evelyn Ryan, Pauletta Hansel] (Beckley, W.Va.: Quickprint Center, 1975)

COLLEEN ANDERSON (1950–) (W.VA.)

F & P Stories and poems published in New Voices, Kestrel, Carolina Quarterly, Redbook, The Sun

BARBARA ANGLE (MD./W.VA.)

F Those That Mattered (New York: Crown Publishers, 1994)

NF Sexual Harassment in the Coal Industry: A Survey Of Women Miners by Connie White, Barbara Angle, & Marat Moore (Oak Ridge, Tenn.: Coal Employment Project, 1981)

F Rinker (Washington, D.C.: Crossroads Press, 1979)

REBECCA BAILEY (1958–) (KY.)

P A Wild Kentucky Garden: Poems & Essays (Ashland, Ky.: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1998)

JULIE BAKER (W.VA.)

YA Up Molasses Mountain (New York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2002)

LOUISE R. BAKER (1868–?) (TENN.)

F Cis Martin, or The Furriners in the Tennessee Mountains (1898)

SANDRA BELTON (1939–) (W. VA.)

YA McKendree (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2000)

YA From Miss Ida's Porch (New York: Four Winds Press, 1993)

MICHELLE BIOSSEAU (1955–) (KY.)

P No Private Life (Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1990)

MARY BRECKINRIDGE (1881–1965)

NF Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service (New York: Harper, 1952), memoir of its founder

JEANNE BRYNER (1951–) (W.VA./OHIO)

P Blind Horse (Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 1999)

P Breathless (Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press, 1995)

FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT (1849–1924) (TENN./ENGLAND)

F Louisiana (New York: Scribner's, 1880)

NF The One I Knew Best of All: A Memory of the Mind of a Child (Scribner, 1893)

BETSY BYARS (1928–) (W.VA.)

YA After the Goat Man (New York: Viking, 1974)

YA The Summer of Swans (New York: Viking, 1970)

SARA CARTER (1899–1979) (VA./TENN.)

SR In The Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family Records, 2000

SR Sara &Maybelle Carter, Bear Family Records

SR An Historic Reunion: Sara & May belle, the Original Carters, Koch, 1966, 1997

WILIA CATHER (1873–1947) (W.VA.)

F Sapphira and the Slave Girl, 1940

GRACE CAVALIERI (1932–) (W.VA.)

P Sit Down, Says Love (The Argonne Hotel Press, 1999)

P Heart on a Leash (Red Dragon Press, 1998)

P Pinecrest Rest Haven (Word Works, 1998)

P Poems: New & Selected (Pensacola, Fla.: Vision Library Publications, 1994)

SEPTIMA P. CLARK (1898–1987) (S.C./TENN.)

NF Echo in My Soul (New York: Dutton, 1962), memoir of African American teacher/activist affiliated with Highlander Center in Monteagle, Tenn.

SUZANNE UNDERWOOD CLARK (1950–) (TENN.)

P What a Light Thing, This Stone: Poems (Abingdon, Va.: Sow's Ear Press, 1999)

P Weather of the House (Abingdon, Va.: Sow's Ear Press, 1994)

VERA CLEAVER (1919–) & BILL CLEAVER (N.C./FLA.)

YA Where the Lilies Bloom (New York: Harper & Row, 1969)

LENORE MCCOMAS COBERLY (W.VA.)

F The Handywoman Stories (Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2002)

MARY JOAN COLEMAN (W.VA.)

P Take One Blood Red Rose (Cambridge, Mass.: West End Press, 1978)

JENNY GALLOWAY COLLINS (1950–) (KY.)

P A Cave and a Cracker (Georgetown, Ky., 1996)

P Blackberry Tea (Pikeville, Ky., 1988)

TESS (THERESA) COLLINS (KY.)

F The Law of the Dead (New York: Ivy Books, Ballantine, 1999)

F The Law of Revenge (New York: Ivy Books, Ballantine, 1997)

GERALDINE CONNOLLY (1947–) (PA./MD.)

P Province of Fire (Oak Ridge, Tenn: Iris Press, 1998)

P Food for the Winter (Purdue Univ. Press, 1990)

GRACE MACGOWAN COOKE (1863–1944) (OHIO/TENN./N.J./CALIF.)

F The Power and the Glory (New York: AL. Burt Co, 1910, rpt. 2003)

CORNELIA CORNELISSEN

YA Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail Tears (New York: Bantam, 1998)

REBECCA CUSHMAN (N.C.)

P Swing Your Mountain Gal: Sketches of Life in the Southern Highlands, with illustrations by the author (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1934)

JENNY DAVIS (1953–) (KY.)

YA Good-Bye and Keep Cold (Orchard/Watts, 1987)

LINDA SCOTT DEROSIER (1941–) (KY.)

NF Creeker: A Woman's Journey (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1999), memoir of Eastern Kentucky native

NF Songs of Life and Grace (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2003)

HAZEL DICKENS (1935–) (KY.)

SR Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People (Rounder 0126)

SR By the Sweat of My Brow (Rounder 0200)

SR It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (Rounder 0226)

SR A Few Old Memories, Rounder Records, 1987

SR Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Rounder, 1976, 1998

SR Coal Mining Women, Rounder, 1997

SR Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard Pioneering Women of Bluegrass, Smithsonian/Folkways, 1965, 1996

SR Won't You Come & Sing For Me, 1973

SR Who's That Knocking? [with Alice Gerrard, Chubby Wise, and others, Verve Folkways, 1966

NF “Songs: Mannington Mine Disaster and Black Lung,” Mountain Life & Work 47 (April 1971): 10–13.

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.: Appalachian 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)