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Aaron Lee Moore

Editor - In - Chief

AARON LEE MOORE is an Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. A returned Peace Corps China volunteer (RPCV), he served as a university English teacher at Southwest Petroleum University in Xindu, China from 2010-2012. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and World Literature from Sichuan University, an MA in English from Florida State University, and a BA in English from Radford University. He started his academic career at New River Community College in the fall of 2002 after graduating from Floyd County High School. Prior creative and scholarly publications include Cold Mountain Review, Toad Suck Review, Sandy River Review, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Collected Essays of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Miller’s Pond, Deep South, Poet’s Haven, Stray Branch, Ascent Aspirations, Illumen, Open Minds Quarterly, Mobius, Virginia English Bulletin, eChinacities, and others.

CHRISTOPHER MCCLOUD was raised in Floyd, VA and graduated from Radford University in 2016 with a B.S. in History and Appalachian State University in 2020 with an M.A. in History and another M.A. in Appalachian Studies with a concentration in Sustainability. He serves as the designer and typesetter for Appalachian Journal and is the Student Employment and Outreach Coordinator for the Radford University Financial Aid Office. He has an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt on foodways published in Appalachian Journal 46.1-2 as well as the article "Virtual Appalachia: Representations of the Region in Video Games" in Appalachian Journal 47.1-2. He is building a custom home in Floyd County where he will live with his partner Sara and cat, Zelda Kitzgerald.

Christopher McCloud

Associate Editor

Web Architect