Hidden History of the Western North Carolina Mountains
Alice E. Sink is a retired associate professor of English at High Point University. She holds a master's of fine arts in creative writing and a bachelor of arts degree in English, both from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the recipient of the 2002 Meredith Clark Slane Distinguished Teacher-Service Award. In addition to this, her tenth book, she has been published in a large number of magazines includingNow and Then: The Appalachian Magazine,St. Andrew's Review,Piedmont Pedlar,Jack and Jill,South Carolina Review,Our State Magazine,Carolina Countryand various other media across the United States. She is the former presenter of the North Carolina Humanities Council and a former winner of the North Carolina Writers and Reader Series. She is a North Carolina Arts Grant recipient, and her biography has been published in theNorth Carolina Literary Review. She has two grown children and five grandchildren and lives with her husband, Tom, in Kernersville, North Carolina.