Rural Voices

15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America

Edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Contributions by David Bowles, Joseph Bruchac, Veeda Bybee, Nora Shalaway Carpenter, Shawn Cosby, Rob Costello, Randy DuBurke, Shanna Edwards, David Macinnis Gill, Rainey Nasugraq Hopson, Estelle Laure, Yamile Saied Méndez, Ashley Hope Perez, Tirzah Price and Monica M. Roe

About the Creator(s)

Nora Shalaway Carpenter is a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program and is the author of the young adult novel The Edge of Anything and the picture book Yoga Frog. Previously, she worked as associate editor of Wonderful West Virginia magazine and has been a certified yoga teacher since 2012. Originally from West Virginia, Nora Shalaway Carpenter currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, three young children, and the world's most patient dog and cat.