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    Read Appalachia

    A monthly podcast celebrating Appalachian Literature & Writing

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    Ep. 68 | Silas House: The Tulip Poplars Nov 05, 2026
    Show notes

    In this episode of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Silas House, the author of The Tulip Poplars.


    Things Mentioned

    • Ep. 52 | Silas House


    Books Mentioned

    • The Tulip Poplars by Silas House
    • A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
    • Southernmost by Silas House
    • Lark Ascending by Silas House
    • Partita by Barbara Kingsolver
    • Alec by William Di Canzio
    • Deborah Crombie

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    Ep. 67 | Madeline ffitch: Avalon, Rise Oct 30, 2026
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    In this episode of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Madeline ffitch, the author of Avalon, Rise.

    Books Mentioned

    • Avalon, Rise by Madeline ffitch
    • Stay and Fight by Madeline ffitch
    • Black Arts by Megan Giddings

    Guest Info: Madeline ffitch is the author of the novel Stay and Fight, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Lambda Literary Prize, as well as the story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn. She cofounded the punk theater company Missoula Oblongata and was part of the rural direct action collective Appalachia Resist, which took as its commitments environmental and racial justice. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, and n+1, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital State of the Art Prize and two O. Henry Prizes, and her writing was included in The Best American Short Stories 2024. She lives with her children in the hills of Appalachian Ohio.

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    Ep. 66 | Pamela Steele, In the Fields of Fatherless Children Oct 15, 2026
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    In this episode of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Pamela Steele, the author of In the Fields of Fatherless Children.

    Books Mentioned

    • In the Fields of Fatherless Childrenby Pamela Steele
    • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
    • River of Earth by James Still
    • The Milkweed Ladies by Louise McNeill
    • The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
    • A Place on Earthby Wendall Berry
    • Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
    • A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
    • The Tulip Poplars by Silas House
    • Land by Maggie O’Farrell
    • The Meadow by James Galvin

    Guest Info

    Pamela Steele was born in West Virginia, and grew up between Oregon and Tennessee. She received her MFA in Poetry from Spalding University and her poetry collection Paper Bird was nominated for an Oregon Book Award in 2008. She currently teaches composition classes at Blue Mountain Community College in Hermiston, Oregon.


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    Ep. 65 | Doc McLemore, Someday We Won't Remember This Oct 08, 2026
    Show notes

    In this episode of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Doc McLemore about their forensic memoir, Someday We Won’t Remember This.

    Things Mentioned

    • Ep. 63 | Justin Wymer, Let the Forest Go


    Books Mentioned

    • Someday We Won’t Remember This: A Forensic Memoir of My Father’s Secretsby Doc McLemore
    • Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
    • My Corpse Insideby Wes Jamison
    • Carrion by Wes Jamison
    • Let the Forest Go by Justin Wymer
    • The Sound of Burning by Kristi D. Osario

    Guest Info

    Doc McLemore is a writer who calls Oregon, West Virginia, and New Orleans home. Their work ties together considerations of class, gender, memory, and justice while also trying to find language for how frantically beautiful this misery can be. Their writing has appeared in Salvation South, The Activist History Review, and The Sunlight Press.


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    Ep. 64 | Mary Leauna Christensen, Beading Water Sep 24, 2026
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    In this episode of Read Appalachia’s minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester talks to Mary Leauna Christensen about her forthcoming poetry collection Beading Water, which will be out from Wesleyan University Press in spring 2027.

    Things Mentioned

    • Pre-order Beading Water

    Books Mentioned

    • Beading Waterby Mary Leauna Christensen
    • WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
    • Horses by Jake Skeets
    • Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets
    • Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller

    Guest Info

    Mary Leauna Christensen is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and received her PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her poetry can be found in Southern Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, and Poetry Daily, among others. Her nonfiction has also appeared in the Common and in Black Warrior Review. She was named a 2022 Indigenous Nations Poets fellow for the inaugural In-Na-Po retreat and was selected as a returning fellow for 2023 and 2025. Her first poetry collection, Beading Water, releases in 2027 from Wesleyan University Press. With No’u Revilla and Annie Wenstrup, Mary is co-editing a forthcoming anthology of contemporary Indigenous poetry and poetics (Wesleyan University Press).

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    Ep. 63 | Poetry Corner: Justin Wymer, Let the Forest Go Sep 17, 2026
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    In this episode of Read Appalachia’s minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester talks to Justin Wymer the author of Let the Forest Go, which is out now from the University Press of Kentucky.

    Books Mentioned

    • Let the Forest Go by Justin Wymer
    • Carrion by Wes Jamison
    • Nomenclature by Dionne Brand
    • Shae by Mesha Maren
    • Poem Bitten by a Man by Brian Teare

    Guest Info

    Justin Wymer is a writer and educator from West Virginia. He is the author of DEED and has been honored by the Harvard Office for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute, the University of Iowa, and the Academy of American Poets. His work appears in the Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, and other publications. Find him online at justinwymer.com.

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    Ep. 62 | Poetry Corner: Noah Soltau: Titanfall Sep 03, 2026
    Show notes

    In this episode of Read Appalachia’s minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester talks to Noah Soltau about his poetry collection Titanfall.

    Things Mentioned

    • Read Appalachia, Ep. 49 | The Red Branch Review
    • The Red Branch Review

    Books Mentioned

    • Titanfallby Noah Soltau
    • The Mobius Strip Club of Grief by Bianca Stone
    • Its Day Being Gone by Rose McLarney
    • Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnamin
    • He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon

    Guest Info

    Noah Soltau’s work stands at the busy intersection of art and politics. He is the author of Titanfall (Madville Publishing, 2026) and managing editor of The Red Branch Review. His most recent work appears in Cutleaf, Raw Head: Point Blank, Wild Roof Journal, and elsewhere. He lives and works in East Tennessee.

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    Ep. 61 | Emilee Hackney: All That's Unseen: An Applachian Memoir Aug 20, 2026
    Show notes

    In this episodes of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester talks to Emilee Hackney about her debut book All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir.

    Things Mentioned

    • Appalachian Literary Arts Festival

    Books Mentioned

    • All That’s Unseen by Emilee Hackney
    • Crappalachia by Scott McClanahan
    • Good Inside by Becky Kennedy
    • What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff
    • Fair and Tender Ladiesby Lee Smith
    • Hill Women by Cassidy Chambers

    Guest Info

    Emilee Hackney grew up in the coalfields of southwest Virginia. She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English and briefly attended Vanderbilt University’s MFA program. All That’s Unseen is her first book.


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    Ep. 60 | Poetry Corner: Danni Quintos Aug 13, 2026
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    In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Danni Quintos, the author Two Brown Dots.

    Books Mentioned

    • Two Brown Dotsby Danni Quintos
    • Sula by Toni Morrison
    • Green of All Heads by Aracelis Girmay
    • Replica by Lisa Low
    • All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems by Michelle Peñaloza
    • All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) by T Clark

    Guest Info

    Danni Quintos is the author of the poetry collection, Two Brown Dots (BOA Editions, 2022), chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Prize, and PYTHON (Argus House, 2017), an ekphrastic chapbook featuring photography by her sister, Shelli Quintos. She is a Kentuckian, a knitter, an educator, and an Affrilachian Poet. She received her BA from The Evergreen State College, and her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Cream City Review, Cincinnati Review, The Margins, Best New Poets 2015, Salon, and elsewhere. Quintos lives in Lexington with her kids & farmer-spouse & their little dog too.

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    Ep. 59 | Conversations: Joe Bond & Mandi Fugate Sheffel Jul 23, 2026
    Show notes

    In this episode of Read Appalachia’s conversations series, Joe Bond and Mandi Fugate Sheffel discuss everything from writing inspired by their lived experiences to future of Kentucky during the ongoing opioid crisis.

    Things Mentioned

    • Appalachian Literary Arts Festival

    Books Mentioned

    • Hope House by Joe Bond
    • The Nature of Pain by Mandi Fugate Sheffel
    • Returns and Exchanges by Kayla Rae Whitaker
    • Water. Witness. Word.by Marianne Worthington
    • A Middle-Aged Woman Rages by Melissa Jørgenrud Helton
    • Dirt Pusher by Daisy Cashin

    Guest Info

    Hope House is Joe Bond’s first novel. He began working on it after his story “Damico” won The Masters Review Short Story Award. His writing has been published by The Paris Review, People, New South, The New Ohio Review and ESPN. He grew up around group homes in eastern Kentucky and lives now in New Orleans.

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    Mandi Fugate Sheffel was born and raised in Redfox, Kentucky. She is the owner of the Read Spotted Newt, an independent bookstore in Hazard, Kentucky, and has been involved with the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky and the Appalachian Arts Alliance, among other organizations. Her personal essays and opinion pieces can be found in Still: The Journal, Appalachian Journal, The Lexington Herald-Leader, and The Courier Journal.

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