Fred Chappell: I Am One of You Forever

Co-Cinematographer, Co-Editor
Directed by Michael Frierson

Fred Chappell’s journey from mountain farm boy to North Carolina poet laureate winds through pulp magazines, Duke University, critical praise and popular indifference. This documentary explores a writer and teacher finding his way to success by staying true to his Appalachian roots while pursuing his craft with honesty, wit, insight and dogged perseverance.