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Mark Jarman, Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of Zeno’s Eternity, from Paul Dry Books. He has also published three books of essays about poetry, The Secret of Poetry (Story Line), Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry and also from Paul Dry Books, Dailiness:  Essays on Poetry. His honors include the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Poets’ Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, three grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry. He...

Karen M. Gravel, Lord Aeck Sargent Planning and Design, Inc. is a historic preservation architect practicing in Atlanta. She serves as a principal, the director of Historic Preservation and chair of the governing board for the company. She is a Kentucky native, having graduated with a degree in history from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1993, before earning a Master of Architecture from Georgia Tech in 1999. She has been working on old buildings for the past 25 years, including...

Dr. Mab Segrest, Connecticut College, is the former Fuller Matthai professor of Gender and Women's Studies, She is the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, an outstanding book on human rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards and Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (both published by The New Press), as well as of Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit...

Dr. Lisa Hinrichsen, associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, teaches modern and contemporary southern literature, transatlantic modernism, contemporary multicultural writing and ecocriticism. She's the author of Possessing the Past: Trauma, Imagination and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature (LSU) and co-editor, along with Gina Caison and Stephanie Rountree, of Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity and the Cultural Politics of Television (LSU), Remediating...