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.

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 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 produced in workshop through the Tennessee Stage Company and Tennessee Playwrights Studio. I’ve been fully produced by the Bard  College Gravitas Festival, Tiger Lily Theatre, Tennessee Playwrights Studio, and Cattywampus Puppet  Council. I’ve participated in fellowships threw off-Broadway theatre company Primary Stages and the Tennessee Playwrights Studio.

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.