On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers

Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore

by Billie Travalini (Editor), Fleda Brown (Editor), Julianna Baggott (Contributor)

This is a collection of 52 of the best poems, stories, memories, novel excerpts, and creative non-fiction by writers who have called the tiny state of Delaware their home.

279 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

As an unwanted child with lupus, Billie Travalini spent much of her childhood with foster families and in Delaware’s childcare institutions. After serving 11 years on the State Planning Council for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, she works as an educational consultant specializing in troubled youth.

Currently, she also teaches at Lincoln University, at Wilmington University, and in the Boys and Girls Clubs Pegasus ArtWorks program.

She is the author of Bloodsisters, a memoir, which won the Lewis and Clark Discovery Prize and the Delaware Press Association Award for nonfiction.

As a former journalist, she photographed and was the principle writer for Wilmington Senior Center: Fifty Years of Community and co-edited with Fleda Brown, The Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers, to be published by the University of Delaware Press, 2008.

She is a fiction editor of The Journal of Caribbean Literatures and has received Individual Artist fellowships in fiction and poetry from the Delaware Division of the Arts.

Reviews

[T M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short Stories about and written by Delaware authors

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked some of the writing, but it's more a colleciton of Delaware writers as opposed to writing about Delawite identity.