On this West Virginia Morning, West Virginia author Ann Pancake is the 2023 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University. We speak with her about her acclaimed novel Strange as This Weather Has Been – and what’s coming next in her career.
Liz McCormick sat down with Pancake while she was in Shepherdstown to discuss what inspires her writing, what's next in her career and how Appalachia has evolved since she wrote "Strange as This Weather Has Been."
SHEPHERDSTOWN Driving up from his home town of Webster Springs for the evening, Torli Bush presented a powerful performance of poetry, selected primarily fr
On this West Virginia Morning, Kentucky author Barbara Kingsolver won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her newest novel Demon Copperhead. In light of this achievement, we are listening back to our interview with Kingsolver last fall, when she was recognized as the 2022 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University.
Kentucky author Barbara Kingsolver is the 2022 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University. While Kingsolver’s fiction takes readers all over the world, she says her Appalachian roots inspire key themes and ideas in her stories. Liz McCormick sat down with Kingsolver to learn more.