Tim Thornton is a writer, journalist and teacher who's worked at mainstream and alternative newspapers as well as for magazines, online media and public radio. He's won national awards for column writing and environmental reporting, the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, the Virginia Press Association’s D. Lathan Mims Award for “editorial leadership and service to the community,” a score of state press association awards and a few ribbons for playing a dulcimer.
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Tim Thornton
Tim Thornton is a writer, journalist and teacher who's worked at mainstream and alternative newspapers as well as for magazines, online media and public radio. He's won national awards for column writing and environmental reporting, the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, the Virginia Press Association’s D. Lathan Mims Award for “editorial leadership and service to the community,” a score of state press association awards and a few ribbons for playing a dulcimer.
Laura Moul
Since 1991, Laura Moul has been creating award-winning photographic landscape and scenic images. She is one of only three percent of professional photographers in the United States that has achieved national certification from the Professional Photogra...
Peter Slavin
Peter Slavin has done everything from report for American newspapers and a Hong Kong daily to freelance from Bosnia, write for magazines and edit a dozen books. Since 1995, the one constant has been the feature and investigative reporting he’s done o...
Phyllis Speidell and John H. Sheally, II
For years Phyllis Speidell and John H. Sheally, II blended their photos and words covering news and features for The Virginian-Pilot , Virginia's major metropolitan newspaper. Six years ago their love of feature work led them to a second career in writi...
Jeanne Mozier
An award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction, Jeanne Mozier is author of the most popular book on the state – " Way Out in West Virginia, a Must-Have Guide to the Oddities and Wonders of the Mountain State ," now in its third edition. Her cof...
Deborah Huso
Blue Ridge Country contributing editor Deborah Huso lives on a small farm in Blue Grass, Virginia, with her husband and daughter. A native Virginian, she grew up six miles from Shenandoah National Park and has been writing on the history, people and outd...
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