My name is Layne Ilderton, and I am the editor/creator of ruralcore magazine. I grew up in southern Indiana in an agricultural rural town and taught English in the same community for three years.  I now hold a Ph.D. in English Education from Arizona State University. My formal research focuses on literacy practices of high school students and English teachers in rural settings in the U.S.

You can read my research here in The Rural Educator as well as my experiences teaching rural eighth grade here in Voices from the Middle.