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Editor and Publisher

Frank X Walker is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets and a Cave Canem Fellow. He is the author of four books of poetry and serves as the publisher and editor of Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachina Arts & Culture and editor of America! What's My Name: The Other Poets Unfurl the Flag. He won a 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. He currently is Artist in Resident at Northern Kentucky University. www.frankxwalker.com

Dr. Theresa Burriss is the director of the Learning Assistance and Resource Center at Radford University, as well as Assistant Professor of English and Appalachian Studies. She has published several pieces of literary criticism on the Affrilachians, including an essay in An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature (Ohio UP 2005). she resides in Southwest Virginia with her two sons, Paul and Campbell.

Crystal Wilkinson is author of two award-winning works of fiction - Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently writer in residence at Morehead State University and has taught most recently in the MFA programs at Indiana University-Bloomington and Spalding University.

Mitchell L. H. Douglas is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a member of the creative writing faculty of the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts. A cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets and a Cave Canem Fellow, his poetry appears in Callaloo, the anthologies Poetic Voices Without Boarders and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South as well as The Louisville Review.

Kevin Flores is a photographer and filmmaker currently residing in Louisville, Kentucky. His current projects include the independent feature film "Before I Say Goodbye."

Amanda Johnston is a poet, writer, performer and one half of the creative team of F. A. Stone. She is the founding editor of the online journal Torch: poetry, prose, and short stories by African American Women. Her poetry can be found in the anthology The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and is forthcoming in Tempu Tupu! / Walking Naked: Africana Women's Poetic Self-Portrait.

Advisory Board
Robert Gonzalez
Steve Halvonik
Elizabeth Newberry
Gurney Norman
Michaele Pride
Dr. William Turner

Pluck! is published by:
Duncan Hill Press
PO Box 14057
Cincinnati, Ohio 45250-0057