
Jeremy B. Jones is the author of Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland, which won gold in the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in memoir and was named the 2014 Appalachian Book of the Year in nonfiction. His essays appear in Oxford American, Brevity, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere, and he co-edits the nonfiction book series In Place, from WVU Press. Jeremy earned his M.F.A. in nonfiction from The University of Iowa and serves as an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University, where he teaches creative writing and directs the literary festival.