In Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, Neema Avashia takes distinct, delicate threads of identity and weaves them together into a full essay collection that ultimately reveals the author herself.

I highly recommend reading The Evening Hour and then watching The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (Mimi Pickering, 1975) on Appalshop’s YouTube channel.

Compelling and lyrical, Lark Ascending is both a warning of our future and a sigh of relief that goodness can always be found, even in the most broken of worlds.

A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia is the perfect combination of science and art, ecology and poetry.