Editor

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. She works as a medical/oncology nurse at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She has been with Under the Sun since 2014.

 

Editorial Board

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.

 

 

 

Ann Jared Lewald teaches Learning Support for English Composition 1 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.

 

 

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.