Silas House is a novelist, journalist, and activist in the fight against mountaintop removal mining. Born in 1971 in Eastern Kentucky, where he still lives, his four novels include Clay’s Quilt; A Parchment of Leaves; The Coal Tattoo, winner of the Appalachian Writer’s Association Book of the Year; Eli the Good; and the nonfiction work Something’s Rising (2009). House is writer in residence at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee.
Photograph by Curt Richter.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Evona Darling, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010