Abston, Connie / poetry and short fiction / Memphis
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Accawi, Anwar / native of Lebanon, lives in LaFollette
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Adams, Deborah / fiction / Route 4, Box 664 Waverly, TN 37185
- Beginning blasphemies 1990
- All the crazy winters 1992
- All the great pretenders 1992
- All the dark disguises 1993
- All the hungry mothers 1994
- All the deadly beloved 1995
- All the blood relations 1996
Alhamisi, Ahmed Akinwole / poetry / b. Savannah, 1940 / grew up Oak Ridge / African American
- Holy ghosts 1972
- Guerilla warfare: newer poems 1970
Allen, Mary / poetry / b 1941 Nashville, lives Franklin
- Reflections of the heart 1992
Allen, Robert H. / poetry / Appalachian region
- Simple annals: 200 years of an American family 1997
Allison, Helen Thomas / 3628 E. Mallory Avenue, Memphis 38111-5204 / poetry / inspirational works / children's books / named Poet Laureate by the Poetry Society of Tennessee in 1992
- The elf man's joke (juvenile) 1984
- Right down the middle of the highway (stories) 1992
- Billy Butter (juvenile) 1997
- P.S. -- Postscripts (poetry) 1997
- Little elf men and pink fairies (juvenile) 2000
Alther, Lisa / fiction / b. Kingsport, resides Vermont
- Kinflicks 1976
- Original sins 1981
- Other women 1984
- Bedrock 1990
- Five minutes in heaven 1996
Ames, J. Morris / poetry (African American) / Memphis?
- On libra rising 1991
Anderson, Douglas / native of TN / playwright
- Short timers 1981
Anderson, Kemmer / poetry / Chattanooga (McCallie School)
- Poem sightings at Hunting Island
- A compass reading for Ithaca
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Anderson, Vivian Cullum / poetry / Nashville
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Ansay, A. Manette / fiction / Nashville (Vanderbilt)
- Vinegar Hill (novel) 1994
- Read this and tell me what it says 1995
- Sister 1996
- River angel 1998
- Midnight champagne 1999
Armistead, Bob / fiction / Franklin
- Never to quit (1993)
- piece in Homeworks 1996
- (novel forthcoming)
Armstrong, Tom C. / poetry / Nashville
- Poetry peddlers 1984
- Work in words 1993
- Word whys from the would-pile 1992
- Loving words and gentle barbs from Cupid's arrow 1993
- Bytes and bites: with a bark or two for good measure 1995
- Gift wrap 1997
- Bottom lines and other curves 1999
Arnold, Edward Ronny / fiction (novels) / Nashville
- Rebecca 2002
- The Lepers 2002
- Rashida 2003
- The Ram of God 2003
- The Tenth scroll 2003
- Plato's dream 2005
- La Ley del reemplazo 2005
- George's flag 2007
- The Harvesting of Joseph Victorio 2010
Arnow, Harriette L. / fiction (novels) / b. KY, lived Cumberland National Forest
- The Weedkiller's daughter 1970
- The Kentucky trace 1974
- Old Burnside 1977
- Between the Flowers 1999
Austin, Willie Cameron Clark / poetry / White County
- My folk poetry 1996
Autry, James A. / poetry
- Nights under a tin roof 1983
- Life after Mississippi 1989
Avant, Hilda / Short anecdotal pieces / Chattanooga?
- To chase a dream 1983
Awiakta, Marilou (see Thompson, Marilou)
Bailey, Anne Howard / 1924- / operas, librettos / Memphis / [TV scripts, 1956-1972]
- Rachel (music drama)
Baird, John / fiction / Cosby
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Baldwin, Juanita / fiction / Suntop Press, P.O. Box 98 Kodak, TN 37764-0098
- Callico tree 1992
- Murder in Dumplin Valley 1994
Barks, Coleman / fiction, poetry / native Tennessean
- The juice (poetry) 1972
- Gourd seed 1993
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Barnett, Jan / native of Unicoi County
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Barr, Charlotte / 1942- / poetry / b. Knoxville / lived Chattanooga, Nashville, Bell Buckle
- Sister woman 1989
- The Bell Buckle years 1992
Bart, Teddy / Nashville
- The Mensh! (novel) 1975
Bates, Scott / poetry / Box 1263 735 University Ave. Sewanee, TN 37375-1000
Battle, Gerald N. / poetry, religious books / Nashville
- The last bouquet
- The last bouquet and other poems 1973
Baxter, Tamara M. / Blountville (NE State Tech. Comm. College)
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Beaudoin, Kenneth Lawrence / poetry / 1913- / lived Memphis
- Selected poems 1970
- Moon in Jefferson Street 1974
- River cycle #4 1975
Behrend-Akard, Linda / fiction / east Tennessee native, lives Bristol
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Belcher, David E. / Loudon, TN / poetry
- "Hand Tools" in Now & Then 13 (1996), p. 8
Bell, Linda R. / poetry / Knoxville
- January summers
- Love puzzles 1982
Bell, Madison Smartt / short fiction, novels / Native of Williamson County
- The Washington square ensemble 1983
- Waiting for the end of the world 1985
- Straight cut 1986
- The year of silence 1987
- Zero db and other stories (short fiction) 1987
- Soldier's joy 1989
- Barking man and other stories (short fiction) 1990
- Doctor sleep 1991
- Save me, Joe Louis 1993
- All souls rising 1995
- Ten Indians 1996
- Master of the crossroads 2000
Bensko, John / 1949- / poetry / Rhodes College, Dept. English 2000 N. Parkway Memphis, TN 38112
- Green soldiers 1981
- The waterman's children 1994
- The iron city: poems 2000
Ber, Musa / poetry / b. Memphis 1950 / African American
- poems in You better believe it (Penguin, 1973)
Bissell, Sallie / fiction / Nashville
- In the forest of harm 2001
Blair, Jeanette / poetry, fiction / b. Milan, grew up Humboldt / resides Mt. Juliet
- poems in Homewords 1986
Blalock, Willadeene / poetry, memoirs / Smoky Mountains
- See: Parton, Willadeene
Blaser, Ronna Wineberg / fiction / Nashville
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Blaylock, Ronald K. / fiction / Crossville
- Charity's Reward 2002
Blume, Nancy Fletcher / Williamson County
- Cast iron days
Boatner, Patricia S. / fiction, drama / MS native, lives in Lenoir City
- All our tomorrows (novel)
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Bokesch, Christine / fiction / Westmoreland, TN
- Edge of forever (novel) 2015
- Haunted by a memory (novel) 2015
Bontemps, Arna / fiction, poetry / librarian at Fisk 1943-1955 / history, essays, pre 1970 literary writing
- The old south (short fiction) 1973
- Personals (poetry) 1973
Bowen, Carl E. / poetry / Memphis
- My little gift to god 1986
Bowers, John / fiction / grew up East Tennessee
- The colony 1971
- No more reunions 1973
- In the Land of Nyx 1984
- story in Homewords 1986
Boyd, Nellie Phifer / poetry / Cookeville
- Pleasure and pathos: poems 1986
Bradley, Jane / fiction / b., raised Chattanooga
- Power lines (stories) 1989
- Living doll 1995
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Bradley, Michael R. / fiction
- To live and die in Dixie: true tales retold (stories) 1992
Bridges, John / 1950- / anecdotal pieces / Nashville
- Keeping up 1993 (originally published in the Nashville Scene)
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Broadbent, Judith Ann Parrish / poetry / Williamson County
Brooks, James L. / poetry, video recordings, screenplays / Route 11, Box 33, Timberidge Jonesboro, TN 37659
Brown, Bill / poetry / native of west TN, lives Greenbrier
- Holding on and letting go 1990
- What the night told me
- Art of dying 1996
Bryant, Katherine / fiction / Nashville (TN State University)
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Bull, Emma / fiction
- Finder (science fiction/mystery)
- War for the oaks 1987
- Bone dance (science fiction)
- The princess and the lord of night (fantasy) 1994
Callahan, Jeff / poetry / Knoxville
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Campbell, Will D. / fiction, religious works, memoirs, race relations works
- Brother to a dragonfly (novel) 1977
- The glad river (novel) 1982
- Cecilia's sin (novella) 1983
- The convention (novel) 1988
- Chester and Chun Ling 1989
- The pear tree that bloomed in the fall (juvenile) 1996
Cannon, Melissa / poetry, drama / b. NH, grew up in TN / 141 Neese Dr. #E-19 Nashville, TN 37211 / former ed. Cats Eye
- Sister fly goes to market (poetry) 1980
- piece in Homewords 1986
Caron, D. Phillip / poetry / b. Arkansas, grew up in Antioch, TN
- Eagles and other prey (poetry and prose about his experience in Vietnam)
Carson, Jo / 1946- / drama , short fiction, children's books / Johnson City
- Stories I ain't told nobody yet 1989
- A preacher with a horse to ride (drama) 1990
- Pulling my leg: story 1990
- Daytrips (drama) 1991
- People pieces
- The last of the "waltz across Texas" and other stories 1993
- Whispering to horses (drama) 1996
Carroll, David Donald / poetry / Memphis
- New York 1993
Cater, Catherine / poetry / African American (Fisk faculty member)
Cawood, Chris / fiction / Kingston
- TN Coal Creek wars 1995
- The year of the beast 1996
- How to live to 100 and enjoy it 1996
- Carp 1997
- The spring of '68 1998
Champlin, Tim / westerns / 1937- / Nashville
- Summer of the Sioux 1982
- Shadow catcher 1985
- Flying eagle 1989
- King of the highbinders 1989
- Dakota gold 1994
- Colt lightning 1995
- The last campaign 1996
- The survivor 1996
- Deadly Season 1997
- Staghorn 1998
- Swift thunder 1998
- Tombstone conspiracy 1999
- Lincoln's ransom 2000
- Treasure of the Templars 2000
- Wayfaring strangers 2000
- A trail to Wounded Knee 20010
- Shadowcatcher 2001
Chandler, Jim / poetry, fiction / born in McKenzie
- work in Desert Poet 1978/1980
- work in Glyph 1981
- Kid Games (book) 1984
- work in Open 24 Hours 1984
- work in Parnassus 1984
- work in Rawbone 1984
- work in Impetus 1984-1985/2002
- work in Planet Detroit 1985
- St. Louis Blues & Other Poems (book) 1985
- work in Baltimore Sun Sunday magazine 1986
- work in Burnt Orphan 1986
- work in Bouillabaisse 1994
- work in Window Panes 1994
- work in Peshekee River Poetry 1999/2000
- The Word Is All There Is (book) 1999
- work in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry anthology 1999
- work in Savoy 1999
- work in Red Rock Review anthology 2000
- work in Lost Highway anthology 2000
- work in Journal of Modern Writing 2001
- work in Butcher's Block 2000/2001
- featured poet Concrete Wolf 2001
- work in The-Hold 2000-2002
- Inside Jazz (book) 2003
- Smoke & Thunder 276-page collection 2003
- A Touch of Jazz (book) 2004
- Hillbilly Noir (short story collection) 2004
- work in Pressure Press Anthology 2006
- work in Ocho 2006
- Parallel Blues (novel) 2006
Charters, Samuel Barclay / fiction / lived Memphis
- Jelly Roll Morton's last night at the Jungle Inn 1984
- Louisiana black: a novel 1986
- Elvis Presley calls his mother after the Ed Sullivan show (novel) 1992
Cheek, John / fiction / Nashville
- The shadow of the rose 1989
Chesney, Billie B. / short fiction / Kingsport
Cheuse, Alan / b. NJ / lives Knoxville / fiction
- Candace and other stories 1980
- The bohemians (novel) 1982
- The grandmother's club (novel) 1986
- The light possessed (novel) 1990
- The Tennessee waltz and other stories 1990
- Lost and old rivers (stories) 1998
Christianson, Kevin / poetry / Tennessee Technological University, Department of English, Box 5053 Cookeville, TN 38505
- Seven deadly witnesses 1971
Clayton, Joy / fiction / Vanderbilt University, Department of English, Nashville, TN 37235
- The pleasures of Babel 1994
Clouse, Loletta / fiction / 1948- / Knoxville librarian
- Wilder (novel) 1990
- The Homesteads (novel) 2002
Cockrell, Pearl Hand / poetry / b. AL / lived Chattanooga
- Sing on, America 1976
- Of men and seasons: poems 1978
Collins, Leslie Morgan / poetry / African American / Fisk faculty member
Coffman, Lisa / poetry
- "Maps" in Now & Then 12 (1995), p. 41
- "Pulled down" in Now & Then 13 (1996), p. 20
- Likely: poems 1996
Collin, Louise / poetry, short fiction / Williamson County
- Falling Water Valley
- A place for love
- Birdsong Road 1999
Compton, Ralph / westerns / b. AL, lives Madison
- The Chisholm trail 1992
- The goodnight trail 1992
- The bandera trail 1993
- The western trail 1993
- The Shawnee trail 1994
- The Virginia City trail 1994
- The California trail 1994
- The Oregon trail 1994
- The dawn of fury 1995
- The killing season 1996
- North to Bitterroot 1996
- The autumn of the sun 1996
- The border empire 1997
- Across the Rio Colorado 1997
- Six guns and double eagles 1998
- The old Spanish trail 1998
- Devil's Canyon 1998
- Death rides a chestnut mare 1999
- The Green River trail 1999
- Skeleton lode 1999
- The shadow of a noose 2000
- Whiskey River 2000
- Dawn of fury 2000
- Demon's pass 2000
- Riders of Judgment 2001
- Clarion's call 2001
Conaway, James / fiction / 1941- / b. Memphis
- The big easy 1976
- The Texans 1976
- World's end 1978
Conroy, Richard T. / former Knoxvillian / fiction (murder mysteries)
- The India exhibition 1992
- Mr. Smithson's bones 1993
- Old ways in the new world 1994
Cook, Howard / fiction / Athens
- Swifter than eagles 1980
- The weed and the winter solstice: a novel 1988
Cook, Gary W. / short fiction
- The old man 1987
- Oakseeds: stories from the land 1993
Cooper, William E. / fiction / Knoxville
- The lonely tree 1983
Corn, James F. / 1894- ca. 1989 / Cleveland / fiction , history
- Farewell the hills 1971
Cothran, Hazel M. / poetry / Nashville
- The observer 1973
Courtney, Richard / fiction / 1954- / Nashville resident
- I Never Saw a Beatle (novel) 1987
Cowser, Robert / poetry / University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, Tennessee 38238
- Backtrailing 1990
Cox, Elizabeth / fiction, poetry / Chattanooga native, lives Durham, N.C.
- Familiar ground (novel) 1984
- The ragged way people fall out of love : a novel 1991
- Night talk 1997
Crow, Ethel / poetry / Nashvillian
- A flower unfolding 1987
Currotto, William F. / poetry, Brer rabbit tales / Memphis
- Rhymes from sweet apple (poetry) 1985
- Dynamite Billy in folklore tales 1990
- Tales and poems from Sweet Apple 1997
Damerow, Gail / fiction, editorial work / b. Colorado, lives Jackson County
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Daniel, David / poetry / Murfreesboro
- piece in Homewords 1986
Danner, Margaret / poetry / poet in residence, LeMoyne Owen College, Memphis, TN 38126
- The down of a thistle (poems and prose) 1976
Davis, Kiernan / fiction / Lookout Mountain
- piece in Homewords 1986
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Dennis, Stephanne / fiction, romance / Harrison, TN
- Raven's Song 2004
Depta, Victor M. / poetry, short fiction / University of Tennessee at Martin, Department of English, Martin, TN 38238
- The creek (poetry) 1973
- The house (poetry) 1978
- A doorkeeper in the house (poetry) 1993
Dickey, James / poetry, fiction / former Nashvillian
- Deliverance (novel) 1970
- The eye beaters (poetry) 1970
- Stolen apples (poetry) 1971
- God's images (poetry) 1977
- Falling, May Day sermon and other poems 1981
- The strength of fields (poetry) 1979
- Intervisions (poetry) 1983
- Night hurdling (poetry, essays) 1983
- Puella 1982
- The central motion (poetry) 1983
- Alnilan (novel) 1987
- Bronwen: a poem in four parts 1986
- The eagle's mile 1990
- The whole motion: collected poems 1992
- To the white sea (fiction) 1993
- James Dickey: selected poems 1998
- The James Dickey reader 1999
Donald, D. J. / mysteries / teacher University of Tennessee, Memphis
- Cajun nights 1988
- No Mardi Gras for the Dead 1992
Dorr, Roberta Kells / fiction
- The queen of Sheba (novel) 1990
- Solomon's song (novel) 1989
- Abraham and Sarah, the long journey 1995
Dorris, Frieda Beasley / poetry / 1920- / b. Arkansas, flourished Memphis
Drake, Robert / short fiction / 1930- / b. Ripley, lived Knoxville
- The burning bush and other stories 1975
- Survivors and others (stories) 1987
- My sweetheart's house (memoirs and fiction) 1993
- The man: a hero for our time 1995
- What will you do for an encore and other stories 1996
- The picture frame and other stories 2000
DuPree, Don Keck / poetry, fiction / University of the South Sewanee, TN 37375
- piece in Homewords 1986
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Durchholz, Eric / fiction / Nashville
- The promise of Eden 1999
- The Fabulous Second Coming 2000
Dycus, Frances Webb Hillsman / poetry / Centerville
- The blue buck banner 1974
- The heart's true worship 1975
- Take time now
Dykeman, Wilma / 1920- / history, fiction / b. NC / lives Newport / state historian
- Return the innocent earth 1973
