Panel Appearances
The State of Journalism in Appalachia: Truth-telling that honors community and resists reactive narratives – Appalachian Studies Association, March 2024
Climate and the Environment: The Americas – Pulitzer Center Fellowship Washington Weekend, October 2023
Non-fiction
Young Appalachians Want Better Intergenerational Political Conversations – published in 100 Days in Appalachia
Coal Miners, Racehorses, and the Grim Sacrifices they Share – published in Orion Magazine, May 2024
How to Sell Solar in Coal Country – published in Grist, October 2023
“I am Home:” In Appalachia, Environmentalists Defy Political Categories – published on the Pulitzer Center website as part of my reporting fellowship, October 2023
Echoes of Coal in West Virginians’ Resistance to Mountain Valley Pipeline – published in The Daily Yonder, October 2023
Skyscrapers in Suburbia – published in the University of Chicago’s Expositions Magazine, Spring 2023
Why am I so drawn to these evangelical couple vloggers? – published in The Christian Century, January 2023
The Invisible Neighborhood – published on Terrain.org, September 2022
Black Lung Advocate Judith Riffe is Making Change (and Quilts) in West Virginia – published in The Appalachian Voice, December 2021
Potential Federal Action Would Address Common and Harmful “Forever Chemicals” – published in The Appalachian Voice, October 2021
Miners with Black Lung Call on Congress to Protect Benefits – published in The Appalachian Voice, September 2021
Biden Admin Update: A Ground-breaking (and Controversial) Off-shore Wind Project Gets Federal Approval – published with the UChicago Program on the Global Environment, June 2021
Biden Admin Update: The American Jobs Plan and its Discontents – published with the UChicago Program on the Global Environment, April 2021
Biden Admin Update: For the Biden Administration, Environmental Justice is a Visible Priority – published with the UChicago Program on the Global Environment, December 2020
Alum Profile: Lauren Riensche, AB ’15 – published with the UChicago Program on the Global Environment, December 2020
Short Stories
“Baronland” – published in Untelling: The Literary and Arts Magazine of Hindman Settlement School
The Cut
Read aloud for the University of Chicago’s Writers in Residence series here
The Four Brothers and the Second Sun
published in Euphony Journal (Spring 2020) and Youth Think Climate Magazine (Summer 2020)
Exit 238
published in Sliced Bread Magazine in Fall 2019