Deep & Wild

Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, the essays in Laura Jackson's debut,  Deep & Wild , chronicle the beauty and awe of Appalachia through the eyes of a lifelong West Virginian. Jackson employs her knowledge of and curiosity for the region to describe life in West Virginia as it actually is while dismantling stereotypes portrayed in popular media with humor and tenderness. Jackson works to describe what is special about her home, looking head-on at all the ways life i