About Bill Weinberg

Bill Weinberg lives in Knott County Kentucky along the banks of Troublesome Creek with his wife, Lois Combs Weinberg, and their three dogs.  He co-edited along with Laurel Shackelford, Our Appalachia: An Oral History, which received the Weatherford Award given by Berea College for the best Appalachian writing of the year.  He was a visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Creative Writing, working with novelist Jill McCorkle.  He served six years on the Kentucky Board of Education and is chairman of the Appalachian Artisan Center, a regional arts and economic development non-profit organization.  He is an attorney and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Hindman.  He and Lois have three sons, Jed, Zach, Tomas, and four grandchildren.

About Troublesome Creek and Beyond

This collection of Appalachian short stories, Troublesome Creek and Beyond, represents over two decades of writing and rewriting that began in 1996 when Bill Weinberg was a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences working with Jill McCorkle, who was the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard.  Several of the stories were polished and honed in the workshops offered by the Hindman Settlement School’s storied Appalachian Writer’s Workshop. They reflect a kaleidoscope of life experiences, both real and imagined.

About The Lisburn Press

The Lisburn Press was created in 2005 and has become since then one of the fastest-growing small publishers in the South.  Its mission is to work with Louisiana authors as well as other Southern writers in preparing and publishing biographies, autobiographies, fiction, and Louisiana history.  The Lisburn Press provides a wide range of services relating to publishing, including editing, proofing, formatting, layout, photography, and graphic design.