Appalachian Heritage Essay Named Notable in Best American Essays

Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, one book of creative nonfiction, and a collection of poetry. He is the 2023 and 2025 winner of the Southern Book Prize, a 2024 Grammy finalist, a former commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered" and founding fiction editor of Still: The Journal. House's writing has appeared in Time, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Bitter Southerner, The Advocate, Garden and Gun, and many other leading national publications. House serves as the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Berea College and on the fiction faculty at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. His first short story was published in Appalachian Review in 1996.