Ep. 2 | Where Does Appalachian Literature Come From?
In the second episode of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester poses the question, where does Appalachian Literature come from? The learn the answer, Kendra talks to Derek Krissoff, the Director of West Virginia University Press, and Meg Reid, the Directer of Hub City Press.
Things Mentioned
Books Mentioned
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William H. Turner
Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch
So Much to Be Angry About by Shaun Slifer
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Jessica Wilkerson
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh by Ed Simon
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker
The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel by Robert Gipe
Guest Info
(c) Derek Krissoff
Derek Krissoff is director at West Virginia University Press and has previously worked at the university presses at Georgia and Nebraska.
(c) Med Reid
Meg Reid is the Director of Hub City Press in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she finds and champions new and overlooked voices from the American South, including Carter Sickels, Drew Lanham, Ashley M. Jones, and Anjali Enjeti. An editor and book designer, her essays have appeared online in outlets like DIAGRAM, Oxford American, and The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine, Ecotone, and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books.
