BOOKS – POETRY
Higher and Better Uses: Poems from Post-Extractive Worlds (Forthcoming)
BOOKS – NONFICTION
High Lonesome Trails: Hiking Virginia’s High Knob Region
Hiking Pine Mountain: A Guide to the Coalfields’ Outdoor Oasis
LITERARY JOURNALS, ANTHOLOGIES, AND MAGAZINES – POETRY
“Kettle” and “Mud Rain the Post-Truth Era” – The Fourth River (Forthcoming)
“Obituary for Virginia’s First Armadillo” and “While Trail Running, I Spook a Mother Bear” – As the Crow Flies (Forthcoming)
“Hawkwatching at Mendota Tower” and “Biodiversity Credits” – Appalachian Journal (Forthcoming)
“Two-Factor Authentication” – terrain.org (Forthcoming)
“Lawn Care” and “Hidden Fawn” – Cold Mountain Review (2026)
“Sprawl” – Split Rock Review (2026)
“You’re the first herpetologist I’ve ever met” – Flyway (2026)
“Small Grace” and “Cardinal Flower” – Appalachian Journal (2026)
“Charlie Turner’s Coca-Cola Drinking Bear” – Untelling (2025)
“Early Evening at the Looney Creek Surface Mine” and “Late September” – Canary (2025)
“River Dolls” and “Flood Control” – Troublesome Rising Digital Anthology (2025)
“The Power of Water” – Had I A Dove (Anthology, 2025)
“Haints” – New Southerner (2013)
“A visitor’s guide to old-town Apalachicola” – terrain.org (2011)
“December Ecology” – Town Creek Poetry (2010)
“After the Sipsey Fire,” “Morning at Tiller’s Beach,” and “Waking under hemlocks” – terrain.org (2009)
“Fiddleheads” – Appalachian Heritage (2008)
“From Bray Field” – Appalachian Journal (2007)
“Nantahala” – Appalachian Heritage (2007)
SELECTED ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY
“Southwest Virginia’s energy transition excludes its most important stakeholders: Southwest Virginians” – Virginia Mercury (December 2023)
“New Uses For Former Mine Lands Stop at Economic Potential, But Appalachian Species Are Thriving on Rehabilitated Sites” – 100 Days in Appalachia (February 2021)
“Where You Can Find Green Salamanders and How You Can Help Them” – The Tennessee Conservationist (September/October 2020)
“Rise of the Local Park” – Blue Ridge Outdoors (June 2019)
“The Science of Awe” – Blue Ridge Outdoors (February 2019)
“Growing Pains: Are Outdoor Enthusiasts Losing Their Conservation Ethic?” – Blue Ridge Outdoors (January 2019)
“The Death and Life of a Trail” – Blue Ridge Outdoors (August 2018)
“Worlds Apart: Looking Beyond Conflict in Coal Country” – Blue Ridge Outdoors (November 2017)
“The Unlikely Treehuggers of Coal Country” – Sierra Magazine (May/June 2017)
“An Unlikely Renaissance for Appalachian Elk” – National Geographic (online/blog; December 2016)
“Ghosts of Panthertown” – Forest Magazine (Winter 2010)
“Fires Creek Basin, North Carolina” – Sierra Magazine (September-October 2009)