The War on LGBTQ People Being Waged in Rural America
25 June 2023, The New Republic
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Trump's looming potential indictments pose a big question for the media
18 March 2023, Salon
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Queen Elizabeth's Final Act, in Scotland
12 September 2022, Salon |
Her Rightful Place: The Everlasting Legend of Tanya Tucker
13 December 2022, Oxford American
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Perfume Genius Sings the Body Electric
17 June 2022, The Atlantic |
Kentucky Governor's Race Was an Anomaly
6 November 2019, New York Times |
Selected Commentary
"Just lean in, Joe: Biden needs to embrace his old age," Salon
"Another Trump win in his proxy war with DeSantis," Salon
"An American in Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Queue," Salon
"Warrior in Crinolines: Naomi Judd represented the best of Kentucky," Oxford American
"The Kentucky Governor's Race Was an Anomaly," New York Times
"No More Reader-in-Chief," Salon
"Appalachia Burning," New York Times
“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
"Just lean in, Joe: Biden needs to embrace his old age," Salon
"Another Trump win in his proxy war with DeSantis," Salon
"An American in Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Queue," Salon
"Warrior in Crinolines: Naomi Judd represented the best of Kentucky," Oxford American
"The Kentucky Governor's Race Was an Anomaly," New York Times
"No More Reader-in-Chief," Salon
"Appalachia Burning," New York Times
“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 Features & Interviews
"When a Mystery Becomes a Memoir: Casey Parks discusses her book Diary of a Misfit," Oxford American
"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
"When a Mystery Becomes a Memoir: Casey Parks discusses her book Diary of a Misfit," Oxford American
"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 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
Selected Essays
"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
"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