ADDITIONAL WORK
ESSAYS
Blue Mesa Review // Homing // Selected by Leslie Jamison
“"Homing" is about finding home through missing it. It's about pigeons and floods and coal country and monogamy, but it's also an eloquent, sensitive exploration of what it means to find beauty in places that other people don't notice, and what it means to find yourself belonging to a place, or not belonging enough. More than anything, it's alive to the complexities of how so many experiences can feel several different ways at once." — Leslie Jamison
Brevity // Ha Ling
The Offing // The Orange Tree
Prairie Schooner // Composting (Print)
RANGE // The Women of Wollam Gardens (Print)
Misadventures // Dry Tortugas National Park
short stories
Alpinist // Vista (Print)
Entropy // Solar Gain
reporting
onEarth Magazine
A small town’s battle against radioactive fracking waste
Natural Resources Defense Council: Midwest Dispatch
Ohio gains ground on a hidden hazard: more than a century’s worth of abandoned oil and gas wells
How the dairy industry is fouling the drinking water of these Wisconsinites
Ohio communities are becoming a dumping ground for the fracking industry
The forecast for jobs in Appalachian Ohio looks sunny and bright
Natural Resources Defense Council: Southeast Dispatch
Hundreds of workers who cleaned up the country’s worst coal ash spill are now sick and dying
As black lung strikes younger and younger coal miners, Kentucky restricts medical benefits
Southerly
Kentucky farmers gamble on the South’s first organic hemp cooperative
Red Tide, Hurricane Michael push Florida into election hinging on environmental promises
Scalawag
From rap battles to city hall — Mariah Parker sets the stage for young political leaders
“We fight for what’s right and we fix what’s wrong”: Voices from Kentucky’s Poor People’s Campaign
“Jeanette’s Law” could help victims of domestic violence in Kentucky
A Republican backup plan for killing Obamacare
Vice
Hemp is good, but probably won’t save America’s struggling farmers
repRINTS
The Atlantic
“Farmers bet big on the South’s first organic hemp cooperative” featured on “What Else We’re Reading”
Civil Eats
Farmers bet big on the South’s first organic hemp cooperative
Earth Island Journal
A Kentucky town’s struggle with illegally dumped radioactive waste
The Rumpus
“The Orange Tree” featured on “This Week in Essays”
funding
Brush Creek Arts — Literary Arts Resident | PLAYA Summer Lake — Literary Arts Resident | Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference — Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize | Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources — Great Lakes Institute Fellow | Writing by Writers — Literary Arts Resident | Kentucky Arts Council — Emerging Artist Award | University of Kentucky — Creative Nonfiction Award