joyce-compton-brown
Joyce Compton Brown attended grew up in a small NC town filled with kin. / After undergraduate degrees at Appalachian State University and a Ph.D. in American lit at University of Southern Mississippi, she graded thousands of term papers. She loves the Blue Ridge and has written essays and poems for numerous Appalachian journals. She writes a column for a small town paper, the Shelby Star.
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