Roberta Teague Herrin is a native Appalachian who earned her BS and MA from East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and her PhD from the University of Tennessee. She is the editor of Appalachian Children’s Literature: An Annotated Bibliography and co-author of Sylvia Hatchell: The Life and Basketball Legacy. In 2011, she won the ETSU Distinguished Faculty Service Award. She retired from ETSU in 2016 and was awarded Faculty Emerita status.