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Jason Howard

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Jason Howard is the author of A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music (The University Press of Kentucky, 2012), a collection of profiles of contemporary roots musicians that explores how the land and culture of Kentucky have shaped American music through the years--and continues to do so today. Focusing on modern musicians who live everywhere from Manhattan to Los Angeles to Nashville to small towns across Kentucky, A Few Honest Words shows how the spirit of the state has taken up residence in the hearts and songs of an eclectic group of musicians including multiple Grammy Award winner Dwight Yoakam, multi-platinum soul singer Joan Osborne, rural rap pioneers Nappy Roots, indie rock god Jim James of My Morning Jacket, legend Jason Howard is the author of A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music (The University Press of Kentucky, 2012), a collection of profiles of contemporary roots musicians that explores how the land and culture of Kentucky have shaped American music through the years--and continues to do so today. Focusing on modern musicians who live everywhere from Manhattan to Los Angeles to Nashville to small towns across Kentucky, A Few Honest Words shows how the spirit of the state has taken up residence in the hearts and songs of an eclectic group of musicians including multiple Grammy Award winner Dwight Yoakam, multi-platinum soul singer Joan Osborne, rural rap pioneers Nappy Roots, indie rock god Jim James of My Morning Jacket, legendary country music star Naomi Judd, and many others.

Howard is the coauthor of Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal, which was hailed by the late Studs Terkel as “a revelatory work” for its unflinching look at the destructive mining practice through the eyes of thirteen environmental activists including acclaimed novelist Denise Giardina, country music singer Kathy Mattea, and the late Judy Bonds, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. As the editor of We All Live Downstream, Howard gathered writings from artists and activists such as Wendell Berry, Ashley Judd, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Terry Tempest Williams into a multi-genre anthology that the Huffington Post called “an extraordinary testimony to the resiliency of Appalachians.” His features, essays, reviews and commentary have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Nation, Sojourners, LGBTQ Nation, Paste, No Depression, the Louisville Review, and on NPR.

As former senior editor and staff writer for Washington, D.C., based Equal Justice Magazine, he wrote investigative articles on such subjects as the efforts of Eastern Kentucky miners to receive black lung benefits, assisted adoption cases in Manhattan, and an eminent domain case before the Supreme Court.

In recognition of artistic excellence, Howard is a recipient of the 2013 Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction from the Kentucky Arts Council, the state agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Named a 2010-2012 James Still Fellow at the University of Kentucky, he was chosen as a finalist for the 2011 Roosevelt-Ashe Society Outstanding Journalist in Conservation Award and as one of five “up and coming” writers by Kentucky Monthly in 2010.

In wide demand as a writing workshop teacher, Howard specializes in sessions and courses in creative nonfiction, including memoir, personal essay and literary journalism. He holds an M.A. in History from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. in Political Communication from The George Washington University, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. ...more

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	Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia by Adrian Blevins (editor), Karen Salyer McElmurray (Goodreads Author) (editor), Dorothy Allison (contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music by Jason Howard (Goodreads Author), Rodney Crowell (Foreword) 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We All Live Downstream: Writings about Mountaintop Removal 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A couple of weeks ago, I was recruited to participate in the Virtual Blog Tour that's been making the rounds, in which writers answer questions about their creative process. I was first tagged in this little venture by Mo Duffy Cobb, a fellow creative nonfiction writer I met while in graduate school at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Mo writes beautiful essays, many of them set on her native Prince Read more of this blog post »

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