Kallet, Marilyn / 1946- / poetry? / criticism / Director, Creative Writing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
- In the great night 1981
- How to get heat without fire 1996
- Always at home here : poems & insights from six Tennessee poets 1997
Kay, Hunter / fiction / b.TX, lived Williamson County
- piece in Stories from Tennessee 1983
Keenan, Joe / fiction
- Blue heaven 1988
- Putting on the Ritz 1992
- Old tales new tales 1998
Kelly, Richard / poetry / University of Tennessee, Department of English, Knoxville, TN 37919
- The night of Noah: poems of 1968 1968
Kelly, Ronald / fiction / grew up in middle Tennessee
- Pitfall 1990
- Hindsight 1990
- Fear 1994
Kenyon, Sherrilyn / resident of Spring Hill, TN / fiction (historical, fantasy & paranormal) / also writes under the name "Kinley MacGregor"
- Paradise city 1994
- Daemon's angel 1995
- Born of the night 2001
- Fantasy lover 2002
- Night pleasures 2002
- "Phantom lover" (story) in Midnight pleasures 2003
- Night embrace 2003
- Dance with the devil 2003
- Kiss of the night 2004
- Man of my dreams 2004
- Night play 2004
- Seize the night 2004
- "Winter Born" (story) in Stroke of midnight 2004
- Sins of the night 2005
- "Captivated by you" (story) in Tie me up, tie me down 2005
- "Knightly dreams" (story) in What dreams may come 2005
- Dragonswan 2005
Kidder, Helga K. / poetry / native of Germany, lives Chattanooga
- Gravel (poetry)
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Kilby, Ruth M. / poetry / Murfreesboro
King, Annette / Chattanooga
- The magic tortoise ranch: a novel 1971
Kirby-Smith, H. T. / poetry / Cumberland Plateau, Sewanee / teaches UNC Greensboro
- piece in Homewords 1986
Knight, Etheridge / poetry / b. MS, lives Memphis
- Black voices from prison (edited this) 1970
- Poems from prison 1971
- Belly songs and other poems 1973
- Born of a woman 1980
- Essential Etheridge Knight 1986
- So my soul can sing (sound recording) 1986
Kosser, Michael (see Roarke, Mike)
Lackie, Edna Todd / poetry / grew up Cannon County, lives Jackson, TN
- A season for myself 1993
Lacey, Earnest Edward / fiction / Memphis
- Freejoe: A Story of Faith, Love and Perseverance 1996
Lambdin, Dewey / fiction / Nashville
- The king's coat: a novel 1989
- The French admiral (novel) 1990
- The king's commission (novel) 1991
- The king's privateer (novel) 1992
- The gun ketch (novel) 1993
- For king and country 1994
- HMS Lockerel 1995
- A king's commander 1997
- Jester's fortune 1999
- The French admiral 1999
- King's captain 2000
Landrum, Graham / fiction (mysteries) / d. 1995 / lived Bristol
- The famous DAR murder mystery 1992
- The Rotary Club murder mystery 1993
- The sensational music club mystery 1994
- The historical society murder mystery 1996
- The garden club mystery 1998
Lawrence, Capt. William / poetry
- author of State poem "Oh Tennessee, my Tennessee," written in captivity in Vietnam
Lay, Elery A. / fiction / Kingsport
- Trek to the King's Mountain 1976
- Journey 1981
- Great tree: a mountain tale 1983
Lear, Patricia / 1944- / short fiction / grew up Memphis / lives IL
- Stardust, 7-11, Rt. 57, A & W, and so forth 1992
Lee, Robert E. and Jerome Lawrence
- The night Thoreau spent in jail (drama and movie) 1970
Lentz, Perry / 1943- / historical novels
- It must be now the kingdom coming (novel) 1973
Leon, Donna / fiction (mysteries)
- Death at La Fenice 1992
- Death in a strange country 1993
- Dressed for death 1994
- The anonymous Venetian 1994
- Death and judgment 1995
- Aqua alta 1996
- A Venetian reckoning 1997
- The death of faith 1998
Lightman, Alan P. / 1948- / b. Memphis / teaches MIT / short fiction, physics
- Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe (stories) 1984
- A modern day Yankee in a Connecticut court (stories) 1986
- Einstein's dreams (novella) 1991
- Good Benito (novel) 1994
- The diagnosis 2000
Loest, Judy / Knoxville / poetry
- work in Now & Then: All around us (anthology) 1996
- work in Breathing the same air: a Tennessee anthology 2000
- work in The Cortland Review 2001
- work in Literary Lunch 2002
- Knoxville Bound (editor) 2004
Long, Joanna Ormiston / fiction
- The cost 1996
Lovell, Elizabeth R. / fiction / native of Franklin
- Four little boys (novel) 1994
Luther, Carol / fiction / native of Maryville, lives Knoxville
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Lytle, Andrew Nelson / 1902- / Murfreesboro / fiction, essays
- A wake for the living (family memoir)
- Reflections of a ghost 1980
- Kristin: a reading 1992
McCallum, Shara / poetry / b. Jamaica, lives Memphis
- The Water Between Us (poems) 1999
- Song of Thieves (2002)
McCarthy, Cormac / 1933- / fiction
- Child of god (novel) 1973
- Suttree (novel) 1979
- Blood meridian (novel) 1985
- Troubled sleep (sound recording) 1990
- All the pretty horses (novel) 1992
- The crossing (novel) 1993
- The stone mason: a play in five acts (drama) 1994
- The gardener's son: a screenplay 1996
- Cities of the plain 1997
McCarty, Raymond / poetry / Memphis?
- Harp in a strange land 1973
- Trumpet in the twilight of time 1981
- The wandering Jew 1984
McClister, Mike / fiction / b. Bristol
- Victim's choice 1999
- Double deal 2000
McCoin, Bedford Hamilton / fiction / Knoxville
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
McCoy, Billie (Maurine) / fiction, children's books / b. IN / lived Sevier County
- Walking after midnight: a novel 1985
- Summertime: a novel 1987
- Divining blood (fiction) 1992
McDonald, Gregory / fiction / Columbia, Pulaski
- Fletch 1974
- Fletch forever 1978
- Fletch's fortune 1978
- Love among the mashed potatoes 1978
- The buck passes Flynn 1981
- Fletch won 1985
- Safekeeping 1985
- Who took Toby Rinaldi 1980
- Fletch and the widow Bradley 1982
- Fletch and the man who 1983
- Fletch's moxie 1982
- Flynn's in 1984
- Carioka Fletch 1984
- Fletch too 1986
- A world too wide 1987
- Fletch chronicle 1987
- Exits and entrances 1988
- Confess Fletch 1988
- Merely players 1988
- Last laughs 1990
- The brave 1991
- Son of Fletch 1993
- Fletch reflected 1994
- Skylar 1995
- Skylar in Yankeeland 1997
McDonald, Jeanne P. / short fiction / b., grew up Knoxville
- piece in Homewords 1986
- edited Voices from the valley 1994 (Knoxville writers)
- piece in Homeworks 1996
- Water dreams 2003
MacGregor, Kinley / pen name of Sherrilyn Kenyon / resident of Spring Hill, TN / fiction (historical, fantasy & paranormal) /
- A pirate of her own 1999
- Master of seduction 2000
- story in All I want for Christmas 2000
- Master of desire 2001
- Claiming the Highlander 2002
- Born in sin 2003
- "Master of desire" (story) in Where's my hero? 2003
- Taming the Scotsman 2003
- A dark champion 2004
- Return of the warrior 2005
McInerney, Jay / Nashville and New York / fiction
- Bright lights, big city (novel) 1984
- Ransom (novel) 1985
- Story of my life (novel) 1988
- Brightness falls (novel) 1992
- The last of the savages (novel) 1996
- Model behavior: a novel and stories 1998
- The business and other stories 1999
McKinney, R. Frank / fiction / Memphis
- Torment in the knobs (novel) 1976
McNabb, Florence / poetry / Knoxville
McNamee, Thomas / 1947- / fiction / native of Memphis
- A story of deep delight (novel) 1990
Mabry, Toni Lamparter / / fiction / Millington
- Chance encounters: the story of the innkeeper's son 2003
Madden, David / 1933- / fiction / Knox County
- The shadow knows (stories) 1970
- Brothers in confidence (novel) 1972
- Bijou (novel) 1974
- The suicide's wife (novel) 1978
- Pleasure dome (novel) 1979
- On the big wind 1980
- The New Orleans of possibilities (stories) 1982
- Sharpshooter: a novel of the Civil War 1996
Marion, Jeff Daniel / poetry / Rogersville, Jefferson City (Carson-Newman)
- Out in the country: back home (poems) 1976
- Tight lines 1981
- Vigils: selected poems 1990
- Barsha Buchanan 1993
- Lost and found (poetry) 1994
- Always at home here : poems & insights from six Tennessee poets 1997
Marion, Linda Parsons see Parsons, Linda
Marius, Richard / 1935- / fiction / Lenoir City, Knoxville
- Bound for the promised land (novel)1976
- After the war (novel) 1992
- An affair of honor: a novel 2000
Mays, Carl / fiction, drama, inspirational writing / Sevierville
- The clown (drama) 1975
- Mr. Adams (stories) 1975
Meacham, Ellis K. / fiction / 414 South Crest Rd. Chattanooga, TN 37404
- On the company's service (novel) 1971
- For king and company (novel) 1976
Meador, Dale / fiction
- Along dusty roads 1996
Means, John / poetry / grew up West Virginia / lived in Oak Ridge
- "Will work" in Now & Then 12 (1995), p. 11
Mesler, Corey / fiction & poetry / 1954 Young Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104
- Talk: A novel in dialogue 2002
Michie, Robert / poetry / "Tennessee's Performing Poet"
- The Addie poems 1978
Millard, Bob / poetry / b. KY / lives Nashville
- Screams from the backroom 1977
Miller, Jim Wayne / poetry, children's books
- Dialog with a dead man (poetry) 1974
- The mountains have come closer (poetry) 1980
- Vein of words (poetry) 1983
- Sideswipes (poetry) 1986
- Nostalgia for 70 1986
- Brier, his book (poetry) 1988
- Newfound (juvenile fiction) 1989
- His first, best country (fiction) 1993
- A penny's worth of character (juvenile fiction) 1993
Mintz, James William / fiction / Johnson City
- Jesse (novel) 1984
- Silver in the Unakas 1989
Moore, A. Patricia / poetry / Norris, TN
- Migrations 1982
Moore, Jimmy / poetry / Lawrenceburg
- A value of time: poems and pictures 1970
Moore, Larry / poetry / Memphis attorney / African American
- Images of Beale Street (fiction) 1993
- A few romantic verses 1994
Moore, Sandra C. / fiction / lives in Paris, TN
- Private woods: a novel 1988
Morphew, Melissa / poetry / Lawrenceburg
- The garden where all loves end (poetry) 1997
Morris, Edward / Nashville
- A killing froth 1992
Murray, Wendell Carl / fiction / Memphis
- piece in Homewords 1986
Napier, John T. / poetry / b.OK / lived Knoxville, Oak Ridge
- Selected poetry and prose 1972
[Nashville's homeless] / poetry, fiction / Nashville
- A rebel yell: poems and stories 1989
Nelson, Betty Palmer / fiction / Gallatin (Volunteer State)
- Private knowledge (novel) 1990
- Pursuit of bliss (novel) 1992
- The weight of light (novel) 1992
- Uncertain April (novel) 1994
- Changing seasons 1996
Norris, Bill R. / fiction / east Tennessee
- Shadows of a burning cross (novel) 1978
Norris, Carol Brooks / poetry, fiction / Johnson City (East TN State University)
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Odom, Judy / fiction, poetry / b. Birmingham, lives Johnson City
- piece in Homewords 1986
- Blossom, stalk and vine (poetry) 1990
- Always at home here : poems & insights from six Tennessee poets 1997
Oldham, Robert K. / fiction / Franklin physician
- The cure (novel) 1991
Oliphant, Genevieve Locke / poetry / Dickson
- The good old days 1992
O'Neill, Suzannah / fiction (novels) / lives Franklin
- Innismere 1991
- Return to Innismere 1991
Orr, Susan Richardson / short fiction / Madisonville
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Osborn, Carolyn / 1934- / fiction / b. Nashville, lives TX
- A horse of another color (stories ) 1977
- The fields of memory (stories) 1984
- Warriors and maidens (stories) 1991
Osier, John / fiction / grew up West Tennessee, lives MS
- Covenant at coldwater (novel) 1984
- Rankin, enemy of the state (novel) 1986
- Edge 1989
Osing, Gordon / 1937- / poetry / b.IL / lives Memphis / 1056 Blythe Street Memphis, TN 38104
- From the boundary waters 1982
- A town down river 1984
Page, William / 1929- / poetry / 5551 Derron Avenue, Memphis, TN 38115
- Clutch plates 1976
- The gatekeeper 1982
- Bodies not our own 1986
- William Page greatest hits 1970-2000 2001
Parish, Barbara Shirk / fiction, poetry / 4293 Beechcliff Lane Memphis, TN 38128
Parris-Bailey, Linda
- Dark cowgirls and prairie queens (play)
Parsons, Linda / poetry / Knoxville
- collection forthcoming
- piece in Homeworks 1996
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
- Home fires (poems) 1997
Parton, Willadeene (aka Willideene, Willideene Blalock) / poetry, memoirs / Smoky Mountains
- Denim, lace and bandannas 1976
- Sounds of my soul: poems 1981
- All day singing and dinner on the grounds 1997 (memoirs and family stories)
- In the shadow of a song: story of the Parton family (memoirs and family stories)
- Smoky Mountain memories 1996 (memoirs and family stories)
Patchett, Ann / fiction / Nashville
- The patron saint of liars (novel) 1992
- Taft (novel) 1994
- The magician's assistant 1997
- Bel canto: a novel 2001
Patrick, Randal / fiction / Nashville
- White trash in a trailer park 1996
Peach, Bill / drama / native of Williamson County
- To think as a pawn (play) 1991
- The southside of Boston (fiction) 1995
- Random thoughts left and right 1998
Pelletier, Cathie / fiction / b. ME, lives Nashville/Maine
- The funeral makers (novel) 1986
- Once upon a time on the banks (novel) 1989
- The weight of winter (novel) 1991
- The bubble reputation (novel) 1993
- A marriage made at Woodstock (novel) 1994
- Beaming Sonny home 1996
Perry, Charles / fiction / African American / b., lives Memphis
- Up the rough side (novel) 1985
Pettit, Vivian / poetry / lived White County
- ...And the blue yonder calling 1983
Phillips, Marty J. / fiction / Nashville
- Close to the edge
Pickering, Sam (Samuel F.) / fiction / Nashville native
- The right distance 1987
- May days 1988
- Still life 1990
- Let it ride 1991
- Trespassing 1994
- The blue caterpillar and other essays 1997
- Living to prowl 1997
- Deprived of unhappiness 1998
- A little fling and other essays 1999
- The last book 2001
Powell, Jane (see Hamilton, Celeste)
Powell, Lynn / poetry / east TN native
- Old and new testaments (poetry collection)
Prunty, Wyatt / poetry / native of Gibson County / University of the South, Department of English, Sewanee, TN 37375
- The times between 1982
- What women know, what men believe 1986
- Balance as belief 1989
- Fallen from the symboled world 1990
- The elbow tree 1993
- The run of the house (poetry) 1993
- Since the noon mail stopped 1997
- Unarmed and dangerous: new and selected poems 2000
Quillen, Rita Sims / poetry / Blountville
- October dusk 1987
- Looking for native ground (criticism) 1989
- Counting the sums 1995
Ramsey, Paul / 1924- / poetry / b. Atlanta, lives Chattanooga
- No running on the boardwalk 1975
- The keepers 1984
- The truth of value 1985
Randolph, Lois Vaughn / poetry / Knoxville?
- A cup of living water
- 1991
Ray, Jeanne / fiction / Nashville
- Julie and Romeo 2000
Reed, Alison / poetry / Nashville
- The first movement 1976
- Bid me welcome 1978
Reed, Ishmael / 1938- / poetry, fiction / b., lived Chattanooga, lives CA
- Mumbo jumbo (novel) 1972
- Conjure (poetry) 1972
- Last days of Louisiana red 1974
- Flight to Canada (fiction) 1976
- Chattanooga (poetry) 1973
- Yardbird lives (poetry) 1978
- Secretary to the spirits 1978
- Shrovetide in old New Orleans 1978
- The terrible twos (fiction) 1982
- Reckless eyeballing (fiction) 1986
- New and collected poems 1988
- Writin' is fightin' 1988
- The terrible threes (fiction) 1989
- Mumbo jumbo (fiction) 1989
- Japanese by spring (stories) 1993
Renkl, Margaret / poetry / b. AL, lives Nashville
- Marigold poems 1994
- piece in Homeworks 1996
Rice, Linda Lightsey / fiction / lives Knoxville
- Southern exposure (novel) 1992
- The fireplace dream (novel)
Rich, Thomas S. / poetry / Nashville
- piece in Tennessee landscapes, people & places 1996
Roarke, Mike (Michael Kosser) / fiction
- Thunder in the east (novel) 1993
- Shadows on the long house (novel) 1994
- Silent drums (novel) 1994
- Blood river (novel) 1995
- Autumn thunder 1997
- Walks on the wind 1998
- Warriors' honor 1999
Robinson, Barbara S. / fiction / Sevierville
- A white clearing (novel) 1988
Robison, J. C. / fiction / Brentwood Academy, 219 Granny White Pike Brentwood, TN 37027
Rogers, Bobby Caudle / poetry / Jackson
Rosenthal, Abby Jane / poetry / 650 South Greer Memphis, TN 38111
- Ardor's hat 1985
Royster, Philip M. / 1943- / poetry / b. Chicago, lives Nashville / African American
- The back door 1971
Royster, Sandra H. / poetry / lives Nashville / African American
- Woman talk 1974
Rucker, Cornelia M. / poetry / b. East Nashville, lived Franklin
- Christmas love 1987
Russell, Frank / poetry / 501 Park Center Nashville, TN 37205
- Dinner with Dr. Rocksteady 1981
Ryan, John Fergus / fiction / resident of Memphis
- The redneck bride: a novel 1982
- The little brothers of St. Mortimer (novel) 1991
- Watching: a novel 1997