Bill Steber is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with degrees in English and Photography. He has worked at the Tennessean as a staff photographer since 1989, where he has won over 40 regional and national photojournalism awards. His documentary work has been exhibited widely throughout the South. In 1997, Steber was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant to continue a project documenting Blues Culture in Mississippi that he started in 1993. The grant was for one year and during that time Steber was on sabbatical from the Tennessean.

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