Selected Politics
"Another Trump win in his proxy war with DeSantis," Salon
"Trump's looming potential indictments pose a big question for the media: How to cover his campaign?" Salon
"An American in Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Queue," Salon
"Queen Elizabeth's Final Act, in Scotland," Salon
"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
"Another Trump win in his proxy war with DeSantis," Salon
"Trump's looming potential indictments pose a big question for the media: How to cover his campaign?" Salon
"An American in Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Queue," Salon
"Queen Elizabeth's Final Act, in Scotland," Salon
"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
Selected Culture
"How a Globetrotting Designer Reinvented a Louisville Victorian," Town & Country
"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
"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
“Where Her Heart Is,” a feature about Ashley Judd in Sojourners
"How a Globetrotting Designer Reinvented a Louisville Victorian," Town & Country
"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
"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
“Where Her Heart Is,” a feature about Ashley Judd in Sojourners
Selected Music
"Warrior in Crinolines: Naomi Judd represented the best of Kentucky," Oxford American
"Her Rightful Place: The Everlasting Legend of Tanya Tucker," Oxford American
"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
"Warrior in Crinolines: Naomi Judd represented the best of Kentucky," Oxford American
"Her Rightful Place: The Everlasting Legend of Tanya Tucker," Oxford American
"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
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
"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