
Taught a creative writing workshop at Radford University today for their Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference. Lovely campus and wonderful people! ❤️

Writer, Teacher
Read my poem, “Teaching Streetcar to College Literature Students” today with the Women of Appalachia Project. Morehead, Kentucky is such a cute town, and I was proud to meet so many friends there!



This year’s installment of Women Speak is almost out, and here’s the cover. So proud to be included alongside so many wonderful women writers. Yay!

West TN PBS | Tennessee Writes
— Read on www.westtnpbs.org/tv-schedule/tennessee-writes/
Proud to have been interviewed about my book Daughters of Muscadine on the local PBS station in Jackson, TN. Shout out to Peter Noll and Baily Luther for inviting me! ❤️

I have a short story in Troublesome Rising: a Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky. This anthology focuses on the historic flood in summer 2022. So many people lost their lives in that flood, and University Press of Kentucky decided to publish this anthology in remembrance of them.
I’m proud to be included in this beautiful book with so many good writers! Here’s a link to purchase it:
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9781950564422/troublesome-rising/
Big thanks to Christina Consolino at Shelf Unbound for this wonderful interview and for helping me promote Daughters of Muscadine. Here’s the link:
❤️ Thanks to Nancy Christie for this thoughtful interview:

This one is very good and I can’t wait to finish it. It’s about a young girl growing up in a staunchly religious, Christian family. Her grandpa starts his own church and publicly shames those in the faith that he disagrees with. He gets up and gives sermons in which he calls out even his own family members. It’s cringey and abusive. Women in the church are gaslit and told that they must be at fault if they miscarry a baby, and don’t even think about committing formication in this church. The book was first published in 1995, but I think it’s a very important book to read right now in light f everything going on with abortion rights and all the scandals surrounding abuse in churches.