Matthew Jennings Author & Editor

Matthew Jennings is associate professor of History at Middle Georgia State University. He is the author of New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast and editor of The Flower Hunter and the People, a collection of naturalist William Bartram’s writings on the Native Southeast. Jennings has published pictorial histories of Ocmulgee National Monument and Macon, Georgia (with Stephen Taylor). Gordon Johnston is professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at Mercer University. He is author of Gravity's Light Grip, a poetry chapbook, and has published in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals and anthologies. Johnston also makes clay pages—poems written in clay and wood-fired by Roger Jamison onto stoneware pages. He has been writer-in-residence at ONM since 2012.