Contributors

Jannette Hypes is a graduate of USC-Aiken where she studied poetry and life with Dr. Stephen Gardner who later became her stepfather by some strange and wonderful twist of fate. Although a South Carolina native, she became an East Tennessean in 1998. Her poetry has appeared in Breathing the Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology (Celtic Cat Publishing, 2001); The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume I: South Carolina (Texas Review, 2007); Outscapes: Writings on Fences and Frontiers (Knoxville Writers’ Guild, 2008); The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia (Texas Review, 2011); and most recently The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (Texas Review Press, 2013).