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Teddy Friedline, editor at the literary journal of Chatham University's MFA Program, was kind enough to write this beautiful review of Deep & Wild.

My interview on West Virginia Public Broadcasting/NPR's Inside Appalachia with Bill Lynch.

Deep & Wild Interview

Laura's Deep & Wild interview

"Laura Jackson's book of essays and anecdotes is a beautiful, moving, and side-splittingly funny examination of the strangeness of being West Virginian...."

Five questions: Going deep and writing wild in West Virginia WESTVIRGINIAVILLE: Aside from ‘yourself’ and maybe the Nobel Prize for Literature folks, who is your ideal audience in your head for ‘DEEP & WILD’? Say that you could design your perfect audience, who — among many audiences, perhaps — did you have in mind while writing and compiling the pieces for the book? LAURA JACKSON: I wrote it for people who aren’t from West Virginia, those who wonder or don’t know what it’s l

Here are some excerpts from Laura Jackson’s debut essay collection, ‘DEEP & WILD: On Mountains, Opossums, & Finding Your Way in West Virginia,’ released in October 2024 from Autumn House Press.

A kind review of DEEP & WILD by West Virginia author M. Lynne Squires in the November 2 edition of the Southern Literary Review. "For every misconception, Jackson provides an honest rebuttal. For every glaring drawback of this wild state, she provides a counterbalance. Even as it’s impossible to define West Virginia succinctly, Deep & Wild provides a path forward in understanding its history and people. An added bonus? Her writing is wildly funny. You will find yourself lau