Jason Kyle Howard

About

Jason Kyle Howard is the author of A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music and coauthor of Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, Salon, the Nation, the Millions, Utne Reader, and on NPR. He directs the creative writing program at Berea College and serves on the faculty of Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing.

Articles

If God Had a Name

By Jason Kyle Howard

Issue 111, Winter 2020

If God Had a Name

By Jason Kyle Howard

Issue 119, Winter 2022

Her Rightful Place

Then the muscle memory of nearly fifty years in the business—five decades of playing barrooms, casinos, rodeos, state fairs, arenas, even the Super Bowl; five decades of peaks and valleys, of being...

By Jason Kyle Howard

Issue 123, Winter 2023

The Feel of the Flames

The Wheel knew me; it intuited what I needed then and what I would need in the years to come.

By Jason Kyle Howard

Web Feature

When a Mystery Becomes a Memoir

The most captivating narrative thread in Diary of a Misfit is Casey Parks’s own.

By Jason Kyle Howard

CELESTIAL NAVIGATION

An excerpt from the collection Step Into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia . In my family, the women of generations past—and sometimes present—often found themselves without choices...

By Jason Kyle Howard

Web Feature

Warrior in Crinolines

Somehow, she was able to mirror the finest qualities of her home state for the rest of the world to see: resourcefulness, intelligence, hospitality, eccentricity, a strong work ethic, a love of...

By Jason Kyle Howard