Marianne Worthington is cofounder and poetry editor of Still: The Journal, an online literary magazine publishing writers, artists, and musicians with ties to Appalachia since 2009. Her work has appeared in Oxford American, CALYX, Shenandoah, Swing, and Salvation South, among other places. She received the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and artist grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship Program. She coedited Piano in a Sycamore: Writing Lessons from the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop and is author of a poetry chapbook. Her poetry collection is The Girl Singer (University of Kentucky Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 Weatherford Award for Poetry. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and lives, writes, and teaches in southeast Kentucky.