Adrian Blevins is the author of Live from the Homesick Jamboree, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, and two chapbooks. She has received a Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. The co-editor with Karen McEllmurray, of Walk Till the Dogs get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden In Contemporary Appalachia (OSU), she has published her work in Best Creative Nonfiction of the South and a variety of literary journals.