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, where my team won a national Edward R. Murrow Award and an Online News Association award for our breaking news coverage of Hurricane Helene. In 2026, I was named one of three Emerging Journalists of the Year by Covering Climate Now.

Before that, I 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 have produced radio stories on folk arts with Inside Appalachia, a project of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.  I was proud to work with the Black in Appalachia project as a production assistant on a documentary project concerning Knoxville artist Beauford Delaney.

I’m also a playwright & essayist.

I am a recipient of the Kristi Havens Memorial  Fellowship for a residency at the Sundress Academy of the Arts in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and have also worked in residency with Dear Butte.

My plays have been developed through sheATL Arts, Breaking & Entering Theatre Collective’s Rooftop Reading Series, the Tennessee Stage Company, and Tennessee Playwrights Studio, among others. I’ve participated in fellowships with off-Broadway theatre company Primary Stages, Next Rung Productions, and the Tennessee Playwrights Studio.

I like to tell stories about ghosts, memory, history, small town politics, labor, environmental disaster, and getting lost in the woods. I cover Central Appalachia, but sometimes other places too.