Silas House
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in Whitley County, Kentucky, The United StatesWebsite
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Literature & Fiction, Outdoors & Nature, Young Adult
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Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of six novels--Clay's Quilt, ; A Parchment of Leaves, ; The Coal Tattoo, ; Eli the Good, ; Same Sun Here (co-authored with Neela Vaswani) ; Southernmost (), as well as a book of creative nonfiction, Something's Rising, co-authored with Jason Howard, ; and three plays.
His work frequently appears in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Salon. He is former commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered". His writing has appeared in recently in Time, Ecotone, Oxford American, Garden and Gun, and many other publications.
House serves on the fiction faculty at the Spalding School of Writing and as the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Berea College.
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Interview by Kayti Wingfield
Award-winning writer Silas House was born and raised in Appalachia, in the rural mountains of Kentucky. He drew from his childhood memories of Laurel and Leslie counties for the basis of his first three novels, and has composed press kits for some of Nashville’s top musical artists. Among his other accomplishments, Silas created the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, served as the NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, acted as contributing editor for No Depression magazine, and was chosen as Appalachian Writer of the Year by Shepherd University in
In his “free” time, Silas also serves on the board of directors for Appalachian Voices, and it is in his activism where his love of Appalachia truly shines. We caught up with Silas to talk to him about his work to stop mountaintop removal coal mining and protect the mountains of Appalachia, and here is what he had to say:
What makes you an Appalachian?
I think what makes a person Appalachian is if they care about this place, if they work to preserve and protect it, if they strive to understand it in all of its complexities. I was born and raised here and I believe
Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including his most recent, Lark Ascending, which was a Booklist Editors' Choice and is the winner of the Southern Book Prize and the Nautilus Book Award. In he was the recipient of the Duggins Prize, the largest award for an LGBTQ writer in the nation. In he was inducted as the Poet Laureate of Kentucky for and became a Grammy finalist. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Garden & Gun, The New York Times, Oxford American, Ecotone, Tri-Quarterly, and many more of the country's leading publications. House teaches at Berea College and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing.
Silas House Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
"Looking in the Mirror", an essay by Silas House about his novel, Southernmost
From the moment my first child was born, everything was different: the way the world sounded, the quality of light, the endless possibilities of both hope and danger. The first time I held her I knew I would try to be the best person I could be in ways that I never had before. I would do everything in my power to protect her. There was no limit to how far I would go.
That was the moment my new novel, Southernmost, was born, too, although I would not know that for a couple of decades. Over the next twenty years, while learning how to be a parent, I would also learn more about myself. I&#;d feel the life-altering power of loving someone else more than yourself. I&#;d know the vengeful anger that rose toward someone who hurt my child. Most of all I&#;d discover that the primary emotion involved with being a parent is powerlessness, of ultimately realizing that there is only so much you can protect your child from, no matter how hard you try. I always knew I&#;d do anything for my child, but most of the time parents are stuck in a purgat
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