2026 Appalachian Literary Arts Festival

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!

New books from the book fair!
Fellow readers! ❤️

Troublesome Rising Anthology

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/

Rate My Book!

A few people have contacted me on here to congratulate me on my book publication, and several of you have told me you enjoyed reading Muscadine. If you haven’t already, please consider rating my book on Goodreads or Amazon. Thanks! ❤️

What I’m Reading Now: The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

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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.

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