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LAURA JACKSON

AUTHOR OF
DEEP & WILD:
ON MOUNTAINS, OPOSSUMS,
& FINDING YOUR WAY IN WEST VIRGINIA

DEEP & WILD

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"What I return to, again and again, is the green earth that rises above us and the water that carves its way down. West Virginia's greatest assets are its deep and wild places, those left behind and off the map."                

                             —Laura Jackson, DEEP & WILD

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I would declare, in 2024, that Laura Jackson be dubbed one of the official voices of West Virginia. There is no one writing with so much love, insight, humor, and heart about this magical place she and so many of us call home.

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Laura Jackson's Deep & Wild stretches beyond the clichés of possums, moonshine, and John Denver's country roads to fully embrace West Virginia's contradictions, its beauty, and its wild wonder. Jackson's essays are hilarious, insightful, and wise, and will have you reading along with a wide grin.

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This is a cultural reckoning and illumination...Jackson writes with the brilliant meanderings of a true essayistic mind...

LORI JAKIELA

They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So

DINTY W. MOORE

Between Panic & Desire

Jenny Boully

Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

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ABOUT LAURA

Laura Jackson is an environmental writer and humorist. She holds a degree in Environmental Studies from Eckerd College, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and an MFA from Chatham University, in Pittsburgh.

 

Her creative nonfiction and humor have appeared in many places, including

Terrain.org

the Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, Still, and Bayou Magazine. Her work was listed as “notable” in Best American Essays 2021 and has been nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize and the 2024 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award.

Laura writes regularly for publications like Wonderful West Virginia and West Virginia Living  magazines and works with local and regional businesses, organizations, and nonprofits. 

A lifelong West Virginian, mountain mama, and wild woman, she wanders country roads, hikes, paddles, climbs, tubes, skis, camps, and rescues homeless animals. She has an affinity for moss, Appalachian spirits, the smell of a red spruce forest, and the Virginia opossum.

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