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Nancy Werking Poling :: Oscar’s Bane ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement My regional identity is confused. Though born in Indiana, I grew up in Orlando before Disney and attended Robert E. Lee Junior High, where we flew a Confederate flag....

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Jessica Arzola-Grissom :: Her Pretty Little Head ::

Southern Legitimacy My great-grandmother’s name was Cinderella and she settled in Nederland, TX. The family didn’t quite live up to the fairy-tale name and several people moved just south of Dallas....

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Ellen Perry :: The Door ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement -I was born in North Carolina and lived here all my life (almost 50 years, now, good Lord). Dad is from east Tennessee, Mom from Georgia – I’m a hybrid, then, of Deep...

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Lorena Pimentel :: Gummy Bears ::

If the South is a state of mind and all we need is a good old penchant for mysteries and a mosaic of everythig we’ve know, the Globl South is my South. I am a writer, editor and translator from South...

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Noah Banta :: A City’s Lagniappe History Of Old And New People ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Spent my entire life living in a town being constantly expanded upon where I can’t remember ever being a time where a highway wasn’t being constructed over my house or a...

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John Riley ::What Did She Lose?::

Southern Legitimacy Statement A field did stretch between our old house in Randolph County, with its recently exposed plumbing that froze every winter, and a much nicer house across the field. The...

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Nancy Werking Poling :: Oscar’s Bane ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My regional identity is confused. Though born in Indiana, I grew up in Orlando before Disney and attended Robert E. Lee Junior High, where we flew a Confederate flag....

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Juan Cruz :: Not Dark Yet ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I moved to the US when I was in my twenties. I lived in South Carolina for almost a decade. I earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from...

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Ken Wheaton :: Mother of the Year ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: One of my first instances of writing for the public was telling the college cafeteria that their “gumbo” was so wrong that it was an affront to Southern Louisiana and all...

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Henry Stevens :: The Definition ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the Halifax County, Virginia and other than two years I spent doing undergraduate in China, I never lived anywhere else but the South. I finished my...

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H. L. Liptak :: The Flabbyman ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in South Carolina we whispered ghost stories about the Gray Man, plateyes, or the Lovely Lady when we snuck past crooked iron gates into grave yards covered...

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Harlan Yarbrough :: Git Along Home ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I lived in the South (which began when I was about three months old), I didn’t fit in; I was different. When I later attended a university in and therefore...

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James Ryer :: An Italian Life Journey ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have lived almost exclusively in the South, but that has never fully defined me. I find that definition in how I think about and how I respond to my orange blossom...

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John Haymaker :: Reprise of a Vanishing Act ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: You might say I was halfway to Dixie the day I was born on account of the Kansas twang I picked up from my parents, who raised me in Chicago shortly after my birth. The...

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John Jacobson :: 1979 ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in the western Catskill Mountains, at the northern edge of Appalachia, south of the Adirondacks, most of New England and of course Canada. We’re south of a lot...

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Fox Good :: He Keeps the Faith ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Raised in Maryland, 10 miles from the Mason Dixon. Summered and Wintered (and more often than not Sprung and Fell) in West Virginia, where nouns are verbs and verbs are...

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Brent Cronin :: Chester at the Wedding ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I currently live in West Virginia, which is in that grey area between the Mid-Atlantic and the South, so I believe I qualify to submit to this journal. Chester at the...

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Brent Cronin :: Anyone but Annie ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I currently live in West Virginia, which is in that grey area between the Mid-Atlantic and the South, so I believe I qualify to submit to this journal. Anyone but Annie...

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