About

I am a writer, theatre artist, and audio producer in the Mountain South.

I currently work as an Appalachian Climate Reporter with Grist and Blue Ridge Public Radio. Before that, I’ve worked as a Climate Solutions Fellow at Grist, and 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 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’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.

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.