Patricia D Beaver Editor

Helen Matthews Lewis has served as the director of the Berea College Appalachian Center, Appalshop's Appalachian History Film Project, and the Highlander Research and Education Center. She is coauthor of Mountain Sisters: From Convent to Community in Appalachia and Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case.

Patricia D. Beaver, director of the Center for Appalachian Studies and professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University, USA, is coeditor of Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia.

Judith Jennings, executive director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, USA, is the author of Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The ""Ingenious Quaker"" and Her Connections.