Ann Pancake (Research, Consulting, Interviews)
Ann is a writer and teacher of creative writing whose PHD research focused on Appalachian Studies and whose fiction and creative nonfiction explore cultural conflict in contemporary West Virginia.
Awards:

• Pushcart Prize 2004
• West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship, 2004
• Whiting Writers Award, 2003
• Glasgow Prize for Given Ground (a collection of short stories set in West Virginia), Washington and Lee University, 2003
• First Place, New Millennium Writings, Creative Nonfiction, 2003
• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, 2001
• Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for Given Ground, 2000
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant for Fiction, 1996