Dear Readers,
I was born in the Appalachian Mountains in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, which was almost ten miles from the Kentucky border. Our home at on Main Street, and we had the Levisa Fork River running right behind it. After graduating from college my mother had moved to Grundy to become a teacher in a school. My father was owned and operated a Ben Franklin store in our town. Right after I graduated from Hollins with a Bachelors degree in English, I got married to my husband. My husband James is a poet and teacher, and since his teaching assignments kept on ...
