Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia

"Editors Long and Van Gundy bring together fiction and poetry to show a region as diverse as the people who make it up. . . .A collage of a region that is greater than the sum of its parts."
Kirkus Reviews

"Beautiful and important."
Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt, The Coal Tattoo, and Eli the Good

"This book is a literary treasure for West Virginia and the rest of the Appalachian region. It is a rumination on what it means to be of a mountain place in this day and time. In vivid, fresh language West Virginians explore place, identity, family, and so much more. A rich and important addition to mountain letters, I think this book will be regarded for a long time."
Crystal Wilkinson, author of The Birds of Opulence, Water Street, and Blackberries, Blackberries

"Never sentimental or clichéd, this essential collection captures the complexity and richness of West Virginia today. Revealing a deep, sometimes uneasy connection to home, these stories and poems carry us into the coalfields and hollers, cities, and small towns across West Virginia, and take surprising turns along the way to illuminate its beauty, darkness, violence, and grace."
Carter Sickels, author of The Evening Hour
"Representing the rich diversity of West Virginians, these writers offer historical, contemporary, and timeless reflections of life and death in the great mountain state through poignant, at times haunting, poetry and prose."
Theresa L. Burriss is the Chair of Appalachian Studies at Radford University in Radford, Virginia