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Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, roundtable discussions, interviews, first-person essays, and scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature,

12/13/2025

Happy birthday, Savannah Sipple! Savannah Sipple is a writer and editor from Kentucky whose poetry centers around her experiences as a q***r woman living in Appalachia. Her first book, WWJD & Other Poems, was published in 2019. Her writing has also been published in Southern Cultures, Still: The Journal, and Talking River.

12/11/2025

Happy birthday, John Rice Irwin! On this day in 1930, John Rice Irwin, founder of the Museum of Appalachia, was born in Union County, Tennessee. Irwin was a historian and pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies, documenting and collecting over 250,000 artifacts.

In 1969, he opened the Museum of Appalachia, providing educational opportunities to thousands of visitors seeking to learn more about the Appalachian culture.

Irwin passed away on January 16, 2022 at the age of 91.

12/08/2025

Happy birthday, Jean Ritchie! Jean Ruth Ritchie was born on December 8th, 1922 in Viper, Kentucky. She was a ballad singer who learned many of her songs from family and community members. In 1946, she graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in social work, a job that brought her to New York, where she taught Appalachian folk songs to students. By 1951, she was a full-time singer, song collector, and songwriter. Ritchie is credited with the revival of the dulcimer in America. She died at home in Berea, Kentucky in 2015.

12/07/2025

Happy birthday, Marianne Worthington! Marianne Worthington is an educator, editor and writer who grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee and was a founder of Still: the Journal. She moved to southeastern Kentucky in 1990, where she still lives. Her poetry was published in The Girl Singer in 2021 by the University Press of Kentucky and won the Weatherford Award for Poetry.

12/06/2025

Happy birthday, Sherry Cook Stanforth! Sherry Cook Stanforth is a poet, singer, and musician living in the greater Cincinnati, Ohio area. She is the managing editor of Pine Mountain, Sand & Gravel and Professor Emeritus at Thomas More University, where she was the founder and director of the University’s Creative Writing Vision Program. She was the editor of Riparian: Poems, Short Prose and Photographs Inspired by the Ohio River, and also published a book of her own poetry entitled Drone String.

12/04/2025

Today is National Cookie Day! Here's a recipe for delicious molasses cookies.

11/29/2025

Happy birthday, Merle Travis! On this day in 1917, Merle Travis was born in Rosewood, Kentucky. A singer, songwriter, and actor, Travis’s songs often centered around the experiences of Appalachian coal miners. Travis had a unique style of fingerpicking that hearkened back to the music traditions of his home in Kentucky and inspired other musicians like Chet Atkins. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977. Travis died in 1983 at home in Oklahoma.

11/27/2025

Happy birthday, James Agee! On this day in 1909, James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. A graduate of Harvard University, he began working for Fortune Magazine after college and later wrote book and film reviews for Time Magazine. He was a screenwriter, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Death in the Family, was published posthumously in 1957 after his death in 1951. His novel Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was published in 1941 and is considered his masterpiece, despite being unpopular during his lifetime.

11/25/2025

Happy birthday, Kathryn Stripling Byer!

On this day in 1944, Kathryn Stripling Byer was born in Camilla, Georgia. After earning her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Byer became a poet-in-residence at Western Carolina University and later at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She was the author of six collections of poetry, including The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest as well as several chapbooks. Upon her appointment as the Poet Laureate of North Carolina in 2005, she was the first woman to hold that position. She died in Cullowhee, N.C. on June 5th, 2017.

11/22/2025

Happy birthday. Marie Cochran! Marie Cochran was born on November 22nd, 1962 in Toccoa, Georgia. She is the founding curator of the Affrilachian Artist Project, which celebrates the intersection of cultures in Appalachia. She graduated from the University of Georgia and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 2020 to 2022, Cochran was the Lehman Brady Visiting Professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

11/21/2025

Happy birthday, Mary Johnston! Mary Johnston was born November 21st, 1870 in Buchanan, Virginia. Her only formal education was a three-month stint at Atlanta Female Institute and College of Music in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1902, she and her family returned to their home of Three Hills in Warm Springs, Virginia, where she began her writing career. Before her death in 1936, she wrote 23 novels, several short stories and narrative poems. During her life, she gave speeches and wrote articles to advocate for women’s suffrage.

11/18/2025

Happy birthday, Julia Watts! Julia Watts was born in Appalachia and has been writing about the region for over half her life. She is the author of adult fiction, young adult fiction, and middle-grade fiction, all set in Appalachia and focusing on Appalachians who don’t fit into stereotypes about people from the region. She is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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28608

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https://appjournal.appstate.edu/, https://uncpress.org/journals/appalachian-journal/

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