A Little Light in the Grave: Poems Volume 48 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781680034813)

Jesse Graves is the author of six poetry collections, including Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, Basin Ghosts, Specter Mountain, Merciful Days, and Across the River of Waking Dreams, and a selection of prose, Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place. He served as editor for several volumes of poetry and scholarship, including four editions of The Southern Poetry Anthology and The Complete Poetry of James Agee. His work received the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Philip Freund Prize from Cornell University, and the Weatherford Award from Berea College. He works as Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at East Tennessee State University.

Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian writer hailing from Johnson City, Tennessee. His poetry includes five full poetry collections, New Red Words, Drifting in Awe, Grave Robber Confessional, Feasts of Evasion, and Gateless Menagerie, and two chapbooks, Voice Hunting and Memory Train. His four fiction collections include Working it Off in Labor County, Labor Days, Labor Nights: More Stories, and Everyday, Monsters (co-written, CM Chapman), and the forthcoming The Wicked Road to Yam Junction. He is also author of the folk history, Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia. He was a cast member on the Netflix original series, Swap Shop. His MFA in poetry and fiction is earned from West Virginia Wesleyan College.