Silas House

Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of six novels, three plays, and a book of creative nonfiction. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Salon and is a former commentator for NPR?s ?All Things Considered.? His work has been published in Oxford American, Newsday, Narrative, Nowhere Magazine, Blackbird, and several other journals and magazines, as well as being anthologized in books such as Best American Food Writing 2014, New Stories from the South: The Year?s Best, Talking Appalachian, The Best of No Depression, and others. He has received honors such as Appalachian Book of the Year, Kentucky Book of the Year, the E.B. White Award, the Nautilus Prize, the Storylines/New York Public Library Book of the Year, and others. In 2016 he was invited to speak at the Library of Congress and in 2017 he was invited to join the Fellowship of Southern Writers. House is the creator of the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University and serves as the NEH Chair of Appalachian Studies at Berea College and on the fiction faculty of the Spalding University MFA in Writing. He is a native of Southeastern Kentucky and currently lives in Berea, Kentucky.