Ep. 52 | Silas House
Kendra Winchester talks to Silas House, the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky.
Things Mentioned
Books Mentioned
Dead Man Blues by S.D. House
All These Ghosts by Silas House
Lark Ascending by Silas House
Southernmost by Silas House
The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Guest Info
(c) Kevin Nance
Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels: Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, Eli the Good, Same Sun Here, Southernmost, and Lark Ascending. He is a recipient of the 2023 Southern Book Prize, the 2023 Booklist Editors' Choice, two Nautilus Book Awards, the Duggins Prize (the largest award for LGBTQ writers in the nation), and many other honors, including being longlisted for the 2019 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. In 2023 he became Poet Laureate of Kentucky and was a Grammy finalist for writing and producing the first country music video to feature a gay love story. In 2022 he served as a fiction judge for the National Book Awards. His writing has appeared recently in Time, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Bitter Southerner, Garden and Gun, and many other leading publications. He is based in Lexington, KY.
