Chris Holbrook’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 10/22/2010. Complete show can be heard at katerinaklemer.com/audio/accents_102210.mp3

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Chris Holbrook, a native of Knott County, Kentucky, received the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian writing for Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Holbrook is associate professor of English at Morehead State University. Chris is the author of the short story collection Upheaval (The University Press of Kentucky, 2009).