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WENDY WELCH Wendy Welch is a writer living in Virginia. Her books are Fall or Fly (Ohio University Press, 2018) about the effects of the opioid crisis on foster care central Appalachia; Public Health in Appalachia (McFarland Press, 2015); The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap (St Martin’s Press, 2012) a memoir about setting up a bookstore in a rural small town; and From Paradise to Puddledub (Lyngham House, 1999) a collection of newspaper columns about living as an American in Scotland. Welch holds a PhD in Ethnography and a Master’s of Public Health. Since 2007 she has directed the Graduate Medical Education Consortium in Southwest Virginia.