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Addie E. Citchens was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and lives in New Orleans. A graduate of Jackson State University, she studied in the Florida State University Creative Writing Program and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Oxford American’s “Best of the South,” Midnight & Indigo’s speculative fiction anthology, … Continued

Rebecca earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in Southern Studies, both from the University of Mississippi. She is the Communications Specialist at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and assistant director of the Oxford Conference for the Book. She has long been a fan of the OCB and has … Continued

Robert Colby is a University of Mississippi assistant professor of history and associate director of the Center for Civil War Research. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (Oxford University Press, 2024), won the Nau Book Prize from the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, the 2025 nonfiction … Continued

Lindsay Currie is a no. 1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of mysteries for young readers, including the Delta Games series and It’s Watching. She grew up on Nancy Drew and loves a good twisty tale. When she’s not writing, Currie can usually be found seeking an adventure of her own. She loves … Continued

W. Ralph Eubanks is a faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is the author of When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land, A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, Ever Is a Long Time, … Continued