Her Rightful Place: The Everlasting Legend of Tanya Tucker
13 December 2022, Oxford American
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Queen Elizabeth's Final Act, in Scotland
12 September 2022, Salon |
Perfume Genius Sings the Body Electric
17 June 2022, The Atlantic |
Kentucky Governor's Race Was an Anomaly6 November 2019, New York Times
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Warrior in Crinolines: Naomi Judd represented the best of Kentucky
23 August 2022, Oxford American
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The Saving Grace of Mary OliverJanuary 2019, The Millions
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Selected Commentary
"An American in Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Queue," Salon
"The Kentucky Governor's Race Was an Anomaly," New York Times
"No More Reader-in-Chief," Salon
"Appalachia Burning," New York Times
"A Rural Man Grieves Hillary Clinton's Defeat," Salon
“Appalachia Turns On Itself,” New York Times
“Protecting Fairness,” Louisville Courier-Journal
“Civil Rights Laws Must Include Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity,” Lexington Herald-Leader
A Letter to Appalachia, NPR's State of the Re:Union
"An American in Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Queue," Salon
"The Kentucky Governor's Race Was an Anomaly," New York Times
"No More Reader-in-Chief," Salon
"Appalachia Burning," New York Times
"A Rural Man Grieves Hillary Clinton's Defeat," Salon
“Appalachia Turns On Itself,” New York Times
“Protecting Fairness,” Louisville Courier-Journal
“Civil Rights Laws Must Include Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity,” Lexington Herald-Leader
A Letter to Appalachia, NPR's State of the Re:Union
Selected Journalism
"Erin Keane Talks Runaway," Appalachian Review
"Queer Sexual Bodies are Despised," an interview with novelist Garth Greenwell in Salon
"Gay and Underground in West Virginia," Still: The Journal
"Beauty in Battered Places," an interview with bestselling novelist Denise Giardina in Sojourners
"The State of Fairness," a feature about Kentucky's fairness movement in LEO Weekly
"Season of Reflection," a profile of author Fenton Johnson in LEO Weekly
Book Review: The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo in LEO Weekly
"Fanfare for the Common Man," a feature about Kentucky poet and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Maurice Manning in LEO Weekly
"Appalachian Mountaintopping: An American Tragedy" in the international magazine Revolve
"Stage Presence," Sojourners
“Where Her Heart Is,” a feature about Ashley Judd in Sojourners
“Denise Giardina: Fighting for the Mountains in God’s Country,” Flourish Magazine
"Erin Keane Talks Runaway," Appalachian Review
"Queer Sexual Bodies are Despised," an interview with novelist Garth Greenwell in Salon
"Gay and Underground in West Virginia," Still: The Journal
"Beauty in Battered Places," an interview with bestselling novelist Denise Giardina in Sojourners
"The State of Fairness," a feature about Kentucky's fairness movement in LEO Weekly
"Season of Reflection," a profile of author Fenton Johnson in LEO Weekly
Book Review: The Creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo in LEO Weekly
"Fanfare for the Common Man," a feature about Kentucky poet and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Maurice Manning in LEO Weekly
"Appalachian Mountaintopping: An American Tragedy" in the international magazine Revolve
"Stage Presence," Sojourners
“Where Her Heart Is,” a feature about Ashley Judd in Sojourners
“Denise Giardina: Fighting for the Mountains in God’s Country,” Flourish Magazine
Selected Essays
"Mourning Hillary and What Might Have Been," forthcoming in What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People
"Yellow Diamonds in the Light," Wildsam Field Guide: Kentucky Bourbon Country
"Celestial Navigation," Oxford American and the anthology Step Into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia
"The Saving Grace of Mary Oliver," The Millions
"If God Had a Name," Oxford American
"To Have and Have Not," 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
"The Fog Walker," Lumina Journal
"Bastards and Ghosts," Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia
"The Way of Holiness," Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place
“Yes We Can,” Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining
"Mourning Hillary and What Might Have Been," forthcoming in What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People
"Yellow Diamonds in the Light," Wildsam Field Guide: Kentucky Bourbon Country
"Celestial Navigation," Oxford American and the anthology Step Into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia
"The Saving Grace of Mary Oliver," The Millions
"If God Had a Name," Oxford American
"To Have and Have Not," 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction
"The Fog Walker," Lumina Journal
"Bastards and Ghosts," Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia
"The Way of Holiness," Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place
“Yes We Can,” Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining
Selected Music Journalism
"The Haunting of Carly Simon," Salon
"You Gotta Move," a profile of Parker Millsap in Sojourners
"Patty Griffin, American Storyteller," LEO Weekly
"Roots Music Connects Contemporary Readers to the Bluegrass State, Kentucky," Utne Reader
“Dancing Through Life: Yoko Ono Talks Discrimination, Marriage Equality,” LGBTQ Nation
Caroline Herring Sings a "Black Mountain Lullaby," No Depression
Album Review: Teddy Thompson’s Bella, No Depression
Album Review: Daniel Martin Moore’s In the Cool of the Day, No Depression
Album Review: Marshall Chapman’s Big Lonesome, Paste
"The Haunting of Carly Simon," Salon
"You Gotta Move," a profile of Parker Millsap in Sojourners
"Patty Griffin, American Storyteller," LEO Weekly
"Roots Music Connects Contemporary Readers to the Bluegrass State, Kentucky," Utne Reader
“Dancing Through Life: Yoko Ono Talks Discrimination, Marriage Equality,” LGBTQ Nation
Caroline Herring Sings a "Black Mountain Lullaby," No Depression
Album Review: Teddy Thompson’s Bella, No Depression
Album Review: Daniel Martin Moore’s In the Cool of the Day, No Depression
Album Review: Marshall Chapman’s Big Lonesome, Paste