Ball, Mrs Marietta

MARIETTA BALL grew up in the coal mining communities of Jenkins and Thornton in Kentucky's Letcher County. Though she has lived in Xenia, Ohio for more than half a century, she sets much of her fiction and poetry in the coal mining regions of her eastern Kentucky upbringing. Her short stories and poems have appeared in Coal: A Poetry Anthology, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, and M Magazine, among other publications, and her poetry has been featured by Conrad Balliet on Conrad's Corner, a daily poetry reading spot on WYSO-radio out of Yellow Springs, Ohio