Winner, 2008 Thomas
and Lillie D. Chaffin Award
for Appalachian Writing
American Booksellers Association Book Sense
Top Ten Poetry Book for 2005
Winner, Ohioana Library Association
Poetry Book of the Year
Finalist, Weatherford Award
of the Appalachian Studies Association
Selected for inclusion in
The Pushcart Prize XXX:
Best of the Small Presses
and Lillie D. Chaffin Award
for Appalachian Writing
Top Ten Poetry Book for 2005
Poetry Book of the Year
of the Appalachian Studies Association
The Pushcart Prize XXX:
Best of the Small Presses
96 pages, $15.00
© 2004
Kettle Bottom
by Diane Gilliam Fisher
Diane Gilliam Fisher's family was part of the Appalachian outmigration from Mingo County, West Virginia, and Johnson County, Kentucky. Her first book, One of Everything, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2003, and her chapbook, Recipe for Blackberry Cake, was published in 1999. Fisher lives in Akron, Ohio.