Jane Gentry Author

Jane Gentry Vance (1941 - 2014) worked as a professor of English at the University of Kentucky for forty years. The author of large body of poetry as well as critical essays and book reviews, she served as Kentucky's Poet Laureate from 2007 to 2008.

Julia Johnson is associate professor of English and director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Falling Horse: Poems and Naming the Afternoon: Poems.