Work

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