Editor

 

Heidemarie Z. Weidner is Professor Emerita of Rhetoric and Composition at Tennessee Technological University and directed the Writing Program there from 1993-2001. She has been with Under the Sun since its beginning in 1996, first as an associate editor and from 2001-2018 as its editor. She has numerous academic publications and has also published creative nonfiction. She lives in Cookeville, Tennessee.

 

Editorial Board

 

Chuck Acheson is a graduate student and teaching assistant for the Department of English at the University of Florida, where he studies in the Comics and Visual Rhetoric program. Chuck holds Bachelor’s degrees in History and Communications from Tennessee Tech and completed his Master’s degree in English there in 2014. From 2014-2015, he served as an adjunct faculty member in the
                                                                        English department of TTU.

 

 

Ralph Bowden has worked as a boat builder, electrical engineer in the aerospace industry, history professor, home builder and remodeler, alternative energy consultant, technical writer, and instructional designer. He writes novels for fun.

 

 

 

Martha Highers is a writer, teacher, and nurse. She has taught English at Tennessee Tech University, Middle Tennessee State University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Southern University of New Orleans, and Abu Dhabi University. She has published numerous poems, stories, and essays. For the last six years she has worked as a medical/oncology nurse at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She lives in Cookeville. Dr. Highers will taken on the editorship of Under the Sun beginning with the work towards its 2019 issue.

 

 

 

Ann Jared Lewald teaches Learning Support Writing and Reading at Tennessee Technological University. She is also a poet and has published numerous poems. She recently participated in an Oxford Round Table in ESL. She has been an associate editor for Under the Sun since 2005.

 

 

 

 

Jere Mitchum is Associate Professor Emeritus of English at Tennessee Technological University having taught courses in American Literature and Technical/Professional Writing during his tenure at Tennessee Tech. He has been with Under the Sun since 2014. His interests include computer graphics, vocal music, and travel. He has sung in choirs, Barbershop quartets and community choruses for more than 30 years. His travel destinations include Europe, Australia and the Far East.

 

Photographer

Christina U. Schmidt is a photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in travel, landscape, and sports photography. Her sports photos have appeared numerous times in the USA Ultimate Magazine as well as on various online media websites. You can see
more of her work at SmugMug, and
you can visit her on Facebook.

 

Web Site Design

Christopher M. Schmidt has a Bachelors degree in Architecture from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He has worked on a castle in San Diego, CA, a homeless shelter in Boulder, Co, and is now working for WD Partners in Columbus, OH. He has also taught an architecture portfolio class. Christopher was instrumental in designing the cover for Under the Sun’s print copies and our journal’s earlier website. If you visit our previous website, you will see that we have retained several of his designs for our online version. In his spare time, if there is any, Chris designs web sites, builds furniture, paints murals for his girls, and has finally finished working on his deck … under the sun.

 

Carl Shires is a retired soldier who was on his way back to the Gulf beaches when he stopped in Tennessee to pursue a completely different career as a Network Security Engineer. Just temporary. Years later, he decided it was finally time to pursue his childhood ambition of being a professional beach bum, but the mountains, valleys, and people of Cookeville just won’t let him go. He converted Under the Sun to its current online format. Updating the website each year is one of his favorite projects, he says, because he gets to “read great stories by fascinating people.”