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KENTUCKY WRITER'S
DAY 2006
Dr. H.R. Stoneback
Dawn Lane Osborn
Emcee for the weekend will be Terry Ward,
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Dr. H.
R. Stoneback and the
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society from New York will be joining us again
this year. Dr. Stoneback is a Distinguished Professor of
English at State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the
recipient of the state of New York 2004 Distinguished Writer Award and
author of eight books.
Patsi
B. Trollinger is the author of Perfect Timing, a
children's book about three-time Kentucky Derby winner Isaac
Murphy. Patsi, a graduate of Emory & Henry College in
Virginia, directed the news service at Centre College in Danville
and hosted the media hall for the 2000 vice presidential debate.
Kentucky. A graduate of Miami University in Ohio and the
University of Kentucky, he has taught English and creative
writing at Oregon State University, Stanford University, the
University of Montana, the University of Kentucky and Northern
Kentucky University. His books include The Natural
Man (a novel), Famous People I Have Known, A Congress
of Wonders, and My Vita, If You Will. McClanahan
is now working on a novel, The Return of the Son of Needmore.
President/Owner
of Southern Writers Group, USA, a unique collection of writer-owned
publishing catalogs, and Creative Workshop recording studio in
Nashville, Tennessee. He has recently formed his own Rock-a-billy
style band, "BC and the Dartz" and is the author of The
Adventures of Buzz Cason -- Living the Rock 'N Roll Dream.
journals including The Tampa Review, The Louisville
Review, The Sycamore Review, and Wind Magazine.
She has been a recipient of the Kentucky Writers' Coalition Fiction
Award, and was awarded best story of the year in the EKU literary
review, The Chaffin Journal; and best story of the year in
The Willow Review's Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition.
Daniel Boone" for four years, serving as Producer and Sound
Designer. Mike currently produces two podcasts -- White Line
Radio and Sky Pieces Radio. 
John
A. Nelson is managing editor of The Advocate-Messenger,
an afternoon daily newspaper based in Danville, KY. He has a
Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Eastern Kentucky
University, where he serves on the advisory boards of both the
Department of Mass Communications and the Eastern Progress,
the student newspaper. In January 2006 John received the Russ Metz
Most Valuable Member Award from the Kentucky Press Association's
outgoing president. He was also recipient of the Bingham
Freedom of Information Award from the KPA in coordination with The
Courier Journal in Louisville. Nelson is 2006 president of
the Bluegrass Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
February 2006 by Main Street Rag Publishing in North Carolina.
She is originally from Long Island, NY, but has lived all over the
US and now lives in Richmond, KY. She teaches in the Creative
Writing program at Eastern Kentucky University. Her poems can
also be found in Sincerely Elvis, a 2005 anthology of poems
about Elvis Presley, on line at Verse Daily, and upcoming in
Coal City Review, Feile-Festa, Weber Studies, and Paterson
Literary Review.
bring his guitar to family gatherings and perform for the family.
Andy's mother Geneva Rice was also an inspiration as she also
played the guitar and sang. Andy has written two songs,
"Which Way to Pray" and "Slipped and Fell in Love". Andy also
played guitar and sang solo in a country band named "Andy and the
Dandy's" in the early 1980s. In the '80s and '90s he played
with "The Kings Mt. Bluegrass Boys."
deserves to be read" by Steven Cope, a fellow poet. His 37
years of work is chronicled in "Felt Along the Blood: New and
Selected Poems." Since 1970 he has taught American literature
and creative writing at Eastern Kentucky University, where he has
also co-directed seminars funded by the Kentucky Humanities Council
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Points, Nougat
Magazine, and Shenandoah Review. He was awarded a 2005 Al
Smith Fellowship for Fiction by the Kentucky Arts Council.
His short story collection, Things Kept, Things Left Behind,
received the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award and will be published in
the fall. Jim grew up in a small Illinois town, but now lives
in Berea with his wife fiber artist Gin Petty.
provides the setting for many entertaining stories.
These experiences have now become The Adventures of Johnathon
Peter, her latest book. Vanessa is a graduate of the
University of Kentucky with a degree in Agriculture, as well as one
in Vocational Education. She is a teacher at the Danville
Christian Academy, a tutor, and assists her husband in the family
business, Ruda Family Chiropractic. 
publications. Her poetry manuscript, What We Burned for
Warmth was selected a semi-finalist for the Backwaters Press
2006 Poetry Prize. Lovin was a recipient of both an Al Smith
Professional Assistance Grant and a Professional Development Grant
from the Kentucky Arts Council. She will be a residency
fellow at the Vermont Studio Center in the spring of 2006. A
resident of Lancaster, KY, she teaches college writing classes in
and around Lexington.
Zach
Bramel refers to Marion County, Kentucky, as "home." He
loves Kentucky, Robert Penn Warren, and Louisville, where he
currently lives, farms and writes. He has read at the Rudyard
Kipling. After a period of research and study in
Thailand, he returned to Kentucky in late March 2006. This
will be his first reading at Penn's Store.
and while majoring in music in college. A long hiatus to
attend to family duties was followed by a return to performing,
both solo and with small groups and a contemporary church music
band. Now, in the words of one of his songs, he's "playing
bars, playing jails, anywhere the ship sails."
Chris
Hamilton is director of Lebanon & Marion County Tourism. He
is the former sports editor, former news editor and former editor
of The Lebanon Enterprise.
Yolantha
Harrison-Pace is an author, dance poet and missionary. Her latest
book is Wing-plucked Butterfly.
they traveled through towns and villages, they fall more in love
with the land, its people, and its heritage. Vikki is now the
author of Deliciously Irish, a collection of prized culinary
recipes collected for the everyday cook.
Don
Dampier of Georgetown, Kentucky is the author of Finding the
Fifties. A Nicholas County native, he is a graduate of
the University of Kentucky with a degree in Commerce. He
served 40 years in state government and since retirement has been a
volunteer guide at the UK Basketball Museum, the Kentucky
History Center and currently serves on the task force of the
Kentucky Watershed Watch, an environmental protection program. 
teaching Gigi retired to pursue a writing career. A Danville
native, she acts and directs in the West T. Hill Community Theatre.
She has had stories published in many collections of children's
stories and enjoys going to schools and reading or talking about
the writing process.
of Lexington. Her greatest desire as a writer is to write
characters that readers love, hate, laugh and cry with. She
loves learning -- period. She received an associate degree in
metaphysics in 1992 and has become a Certified Clinical
Hypnotherapist. Her first novel, The Gifts,
incorporated metaphysics into fiction.
Robert
G. Davis had an early interest in photography and received a
camera for his tenth birthday. He studied under Fox Studio
for several years in the applications of light. He also did a
study of lighthouses in Michigan and along the East Coast.
Just recently he went on a tour of shooting landscapes in Texas and
spent a length of time in the Big Bend National Park. See his
work at 
Kentucky. He is a well-known
political figure in Kentucky and has written his autobiography
The Last Free Man in America: Meets the Synthetic Subversion.
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