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Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, and The Funeral Dress. She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Tennessee with her husband. The Curious … Continued

Sarah Frances Hardy, a Mississippi native who calls Oxford home, earned a law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law, earned an art degree from Davidson College, and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris. She has exhibited her paintings in galleries throughout the Southeast as well as in … Continued

Eddie Johnson is a tribal member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, has served as the Special Projects/Media Program coordinator in the Department of Chahta Immi, and is now the tribal archivist. He is the author, with Jay Wesley, of Choctaw Traditions: Stories of the Life and Customs of the Mississippi Choctaw.

Tom Junod is senior writer for ESPN, where his work has won an Emmy and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. He is a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and a winner of the James Beard Award for essay writing. Previously he was a staff writer at GQ and at Esquire. The film A … Continued

Nicholas Lemann is a professor and dean emeritus at the Columbia Journalism School. He is the author of The Promised Land, The Big Test, Redemption, and Transaction Man. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, he lives in New York. Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries is his latest book.