Editor's Note:
Introducing Appalachian Places

By Beth Feagan | In bell hooks’ last days, a stream of people took turns sitting with her. Her sisters organized the schedule of hospice...

By Grace Toney Edwards | These words were likely penned by Emma Bell Miles as she languished in the urban recesses of St. Louis, where...

By Sandy Laws | Women of Appalachia are unsung trailblazers whose defining characteristics are strength, stamina and stability. They are...

By Rebecca Proffitt | In 2020, 50 works from Sammie L. Nicely’s personal collection were bequeathed to the Reece Museum at East Tennessee...

Poetry by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Susan O’Dell Underwood, and Marianne Worthington