BOOKS / PARTS OF BOOKS
Appalachian Ghosts (Introduction) by Raymond Thompson, The University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming
Amalgamate: West Virginia Coal Miners and America’s Other Civil War, Random House, forthcoming
Transmontane: Essays, Random House, forthcoming
On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars (Foreword) Ed. Anne Lawrence, West Virginia University Press, 2021
Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Anthology) Ed. Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Derek Sheffield, Trinity University Press, 2020
The Book of the Dead (Introductory Essay), poems by Muriel Rukeyser, West Virginia University Press, 2018
Best American Essays 2017 (Anthology) Ed. Leslie Jamison, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
Listy Silver (Artist Book) Collaboration with Lydia Moyer, 2016
Wishing Trains (Poetry Chapbook) Verse Press, 2012
LONGFORM NONFICTION
“The Book of the Dead,” Oxford American, Fall 2016
“Inside a Life-Saving Rural Clinic in Appalachia” VICE, April 2016
“O Beulah Land,” Oxford American, Summer 2014
RADIO
From 2008 to 2011, I produced short features about American history for BackStory. Then I freelanced, made documentaries, and helped edit the West Virginia Public Radio show Inside Appalachia. In 2022, I edited a series for WVPR, “Coal – And the Way Forward.”
PUBLIC HISTORY
Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial (Labor Day 2021)