“Woman in the Woods” listed as notable in The Best American Essays
My essay “Woman in the Woods,” published at The Bitter Southerner, has been listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2025, edited by […]
A Circling Story on Longreads Top 5
My essay “A Circling Story,” published at Emergence Magazine, is on this week’s Longreads Top 5 list.
Krista Stevens at Longreads writes:
“Spring, summer, fall, and […]
Assistant Editor of Southlands Magazine
I have an announcement & an invitation.
Boyce Upholt (The Great River) just launched an exciting new publication, Southlands magazine, and I’m happy to share that I’ve signed […]
Keynote Speaker at Culhowee Native Plant Conference
It makes my little green heart leap to tell you I will be the opening-night keynote speaker at this year’s Culhowee Native Plant Conference, JULY 16, at Western Carolina University […]
Writing a Reported Essay online workshop
It’s my pleasure to offer a half-day online workshop called Writing a Reported Essay, through the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA).
From MWPA:
In this generative workshop and […]
Writing Rhizomatically, a 6-week course offered through Orion magazine
WRITING RHIZOMATICALLY is a six-week generative workshop I’ll be offering through Orion magazine.
Applications open Saturday, March 15!
Rhizomes are the runners that many plants and trees (like sassafras, […]
Soul Waters Rising: An Appalachian Pause
Mergoat Magazine and I cordially invite you to Soul Waters Rising: An Appalachian Pause, an online reading and fundraiser from poets, writers, ecologists, and singers from our region.
All funds raised […]
Soul Waters Rising: An Appalachian Pause
Mark your calendars!—I’m excited to announce that I am hosting an online gathering October 30 called Soul Waters Rising: An Appalachian Pause, to benefit Hurricane Helene-impacted Southern Appalachian communities & […]
Woman in the Woods on this week’s Longreads Top 5
September 27, 2024
“Woman in the Woods,” published in The Bitter Southerner, made this week’s Top 5 list at Longreads.
Amid a scene of spring […]
Writing Matters: An Interview with Mercer University Press
[Poetry] is the way we ritually make meaning and sense of being alive on the earth, and this is important especially now when the earth is changing so drastically—largely because […]
The Way the Moon out now
Holly Haworth “trace[s] the moon through the traceless sky” in this meditation on time’s cyclical nature and how it slips away—and on writing as a way of time-keeping, poetry a […]
Winner of the 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grants for works in progress
Once Upon a High Lonesome out now in Oxford American magazine
My most recent essay, Once Upon a High Lonesome, is out now in the Oxford American’s 24th annual Music Issue. This issue celebrates the multi-hued roots of country music. In […]
“Bodies of Knowledge” out now in Orion magazine
My feature “Bodies of Knowledge” opens this issue of Orion magazine, about the mystery of nature/the nature of mystery. Amitav Ghosh, Lacy Johnson, & Tommy Orange also
Remembering Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez died on Christmas. At The Georgia Review, I joined six other artists and editors in paying tribute to the legacy of this monumental writer.
The World is Made at Rest
You may not hear much from me for the rest of the year, as I continue the difficult labor of guiding my 17-year-old hound dog Banjo to his graceful passing. It’s […]
Readings from A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
Recently I contributed a poem to the beautiful book A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia edited by Rose McLarney and Laura-Gray Street.
The Best American Science & Nature Writing
It’s out! Thank you to this year’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing editor Sy Montgomery for selecting “The Fading Stars: A Constellation” for the anthology.
Remembering W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin, my favorite living poet, beloved to so many readers, passed away March 15, three days ago. With him I shared a love of trees, poems, & the landscapes, […]
“The Fading Stars” selected for the next Best American Science & Nature Writing anthology
I’m happy to share that my essay “The Fading Stars: A Constellation” has been selected for the next Best American Science & Nature Writing anthology! The essay dovetails the cultural […]
“Deep in Time” reprinted in The Utne Reader
Happy to say that The Utne Reader picked up “Deep In Time,” an essay originally published in Orion magazine last summer. Written with the support of an Artist-in-Residence stay […]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being My Father
For so many of us, Father’s Day leads to that inevitable father-hole—father as source of emptiness. As if all our days do not lead us there—or lead from there, all […]
More on the Root-digger
Four summers ago, I went to write a magazine story about a root-digger in the mountains of East Tennessee, coalfield country. I spent five days with her, riding around that […]
Pushcart Prize nomination
Thank you to terrain.org for nominating my essay “Seven Words for Sustenance and Gnawing” for the 2018 Pushcart Prize! I am so honored and grateful.
Best American Travel Writing
My essay “Places that Have No Names,” in which I ride a train from El Paso, Tex., to Lynchburg, Va., was included as notable in the Best […]