Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973) was South Carolina's most prolific writer and the state's first poet laureate. His nature writings garnered him the prestigious John Burroughs Medal.
Jim Casada has written or edited more than forty books, contributed to many others, and authored some five thousand magazine articles. Casada has edited five Rutledge anthologies--Hunting and Home in the Southern Heartland, Tales of Whitetails, America's Greatest Game Bird, Carolina Christmas, and Bird Dog Days, Wingshooting Ways. A past president of the South Carolina Outdoor Writers Association, the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association, and the Outdoor Writers Association of America, Casadahas been honored with more than 150 regional and national writing awards. He serves as editor at large for Sporting Classics magazine.
Jacob F. Rivers III serves as the director of the Office of Veterans Services at the University of South Carolina, USA and teaches Themes in American Writing in the Department of English. Rivers is the author of Early Southern Sports and Sportsmen, 1830-1910 and Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative (both by the University of South Carolina Press).
Stephen Chesley is a semi-abstract artist working primarily in oils, charcoal, and metal. His work has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions and has been honored with a fellowship from the NationalEndowment for the Arts. Chesley's previous collaboration with the Humanities Council SC was an illustrated chapbook edition of the Julia Peterkin short story ""Ashes"" in 2012.
