Mary Ann Connell received her baccalaureate degree from Millsaps College and is now completing an M.A. in journalism at the University of Mississippi. She is currently employed at North Mississippi Health Services in Tupelo.

John T. Edge studied political science at the University of Georgia and worked in the corporate world in Atlanta for nine years before moving to Mississippi to study the South. He received a B.A. degree in Southern Studies last spring and is now working on a graduate degree, concentrating on Southern foodways.

Allison Finch is a first-year student in the Southern Studies M.A. program. She earned a B.A. in English from Baylor University in 1994, after which she taught seventh grade. She is currently studying the effects of chain retailing on small business owners in the South.

Susan Glisson is a doctoral student at the College of William and Mary. She received a master's degree in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in 1994 after earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in history at Mercer University.

Matt Konigsmark, a graduate of the University of Georgia, works for Cox Interactive Media, where he is senior producer of Y'ALL magazine.

Colby H. Kullman is coeditor of the two-volume Theatre Companies of the World and the journal Studies in American Drama, 1945-Present. Winner of many teaching awards, he is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

Jennifer Bryon Owen is a staff writer for Public Relations at the University of Mississippi, where she earned a B.A. degree in English and Journalism. She was a freelance writer for more than 10 years and has a great deal of experience in book publishing.

Rhonda Racha Penrice, a native of Chicago's Southside, spent her early childhood years in Brookhaven, Mississippi. After graduating with a degree in English and History from Columbia University, Penrice worked in the New York office of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni/ae Association and served as a contributing editor for the Quarterly Black Review of Books. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi.

Sarah Sanders, the editor of CrossRoads: A Journal of Southern Culture, received her B.A. from the University of Tennessee. She is a second-year student in the Southern Studies graduate program at the University of Mississippi.

Bryan Sinclair is reference librarian at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina. He recently earned an M.A. degree in Religious Studies from the University of South Carolina with a concentration in religion and culture of the South. He holds the Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He can be reached by e-mail at bsinclair@colacoll.edu.