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Silas House is the author of the novels Clay’s Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2002), The Coal Tattoo (2004), and the play The Hurting Part (2005). His writing has been widely acclaimed and is known for its keen insights into the natural world and human nature. His work is the recipient of two Kentucky Novel of the Year Awards, the Award for Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Chaffin Award, and many others. He is a two-time finalist for both the Southeast Booksellers Award and the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize. House recently collaborated with actress Ashley Judd and producer Alex Rose (Norma Rae, Overboard, etc.) on a film that is in line for production. House serves as writer-in-resident at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, where he also directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. During his tenure as a contributing editor at the late, great No Depression magazine, House did long features or cover stories on such artists as Carlene Carter, Darrell Scott, Nickel Creek, Lucinda Williams, Delbert McClinton, Kelly Willis, Buddy Miller, and many others. One of Nashville’s most in-demand press kit writers, House has written the bios for Kathy Mattea, Kris Kristofferson, Leann Womack, Tim O’Brien, Del McCoury, and many others. House was recently chosen to edit the posthumous manuscript of beloved Appalachian writer James Still and is also co-editing Something’s Rising, a collection of oral histories on mountaintop removal mining. House is also a member of the traditional music duo The Doolittles, as well as a member of the band Public Outcry, a group of writers and activists who visit universities to educate people about mountaintop removal mining. Recently he has written the introductions for such books as Missing Mountains, Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses, poetry books The Well String by Noel Smith and Blood and Bone Remember by Jane Hicks, and was hand-picked by the subject to write the foreword for the biography of Earl Hamner. House is a former columnist for the Lexington Herald Leader (read the collected columns here). House’s work has appeared in such books as Shouts and Whispers, Of Woods and Water, A Kentucky Christmas, Christmas in the South, New Stories From the South 2004: The Year’s Best , The Kentucky Anthology , River of Words, and many others. His writing has been published in such magazines as The Oxford American, Bayou, The Southeast Review, Night Train, The Beloit Fiction Journal, The Louisville Review, and many others. House was recently commissioned to write a play for the Lexington Theatre Guild and is currently working on his fifth novel while he awaits the publication of his fourth, Eli the Good. House lives in Eastern Kentucky, where he was born and raised. |
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Silas House at Cumberland Gap. Bell County, Kentucky, February 2008. Photo courtesy Tim Webb Photography , © 2008 |
