Cicero M. Fain III is the author of Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story, which was a Weatherford Award finalist and winner of the West Virginia Library Association's Literary Merit Award. Sheena Harris Hayes is the author of Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman. Her article, "A Woman's Work: The Story of Cornelia Bowen and Mt. Meigs, Alabama," won the Griot Golden Pen Award. Wilburn Hayden Jr. is the author of Appalachian Black People: Identity, Location and Racial Barriers and served as the first African American president of the Appalachian Studies Association. William H. Turner is coeditor of Blacks in Appalachia and author of The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns, which won a Weatherford Award and Kentucky Historical Society Governor's Award.