About
I am a writer, theatre artist, and audio producer in the Mountain South.
Currently, I work as a Climate Solutions Fellow with Grist Magazine.
Before Grist, I worked as a reporter with the Ohio Valley ReSource and WMMT 88.7 FM in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
My freelance work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and Scalawag Magazine, among others. I am a recipient of the Kristi Havens Memorial Fellowship for a residency at the Sundress Academy of the Arts in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I have also produced radio stories on folk arts with Inside Appalachia, a project of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
I’ve been writing for the stage since college, which might be why I like radio so much. Plays I’ve written have appeared onstage courtesy of the Bard College Gravitas Festival, Tiger Lily Theatre, Tennessee Playwrights Studio, and Cattywampus Puppet Council. In 2020, I was selected to participate in the Tennessee Playwrights Studio Fellowship, where I workshopped a full-length play.
Before WMMT, I lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, with stints in southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, western North Carolina, southern Mexico, and the Arizona borderlands. I’ve been at various times an after school circus arts teacher, playwright and director, farmworker, barista, and environmental educator. I was also proud to work with the Black in Appalachia project as a production assistant on a documentary project concerning Knoxville artist Beauford Delaney.
I like to tell stories about ghosts, memory, history, small town politics, labor, environmental disaster, getting lost in the woods, and being LGBTQ in the South. I cover Central Appalachia, but sometimes other places too.
I’m working full-time, but I take freelance assignments. If you want something covered for your outlet, please get in touch!