Step into the Circle

Amy Greene’s first novel Bloodroot was a New York Times and national bestseller. In 2010 Greene won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Fiction. Her second novel Long Man was a Washington Post Top Book of the Year. In 2016 Greene won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Literature and was inducted into the East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times and Glamour magazine, among other publications. Greene has lectured and conducted workshops across the country. Greene is cofounder of Bloodroot Mountain, a nonprofit organization based in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Trent Thomson is cofounder of Bloodroot Mountain, a nonprofit organization based in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. He holds a MA in Literature and Theology from the Sewanee School of Letters. His 2015 thesis was titled “Living in Lectio: Praying with Their Pens.” Thomson edited A Week in Waiting, a collection of poems by Fr. Anthony Delisi, a Trappist monk. He has published scholarly work on Thomas Merton and Wendell Berry on their shared sacramental worldview.

Step into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia

Edited by Amy Greene and Trent Thomson



Introduction by Amy Greene and Trent Thomson
Wendell Berry by Silas House
Crystal Wilkinson by Karen McElmurray
Ron Rash by Wiley Cash
Silas House by Amy Greene
Frank X. Walker by Denton Loving
George Ella Lyon by Patricia Hudson
Marie Junaluska by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Lee Smith by Jason Kyle Howard
Adriana Trigiani by Amy Clark