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Elyssa East

About

Elyssa East is the author of Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, which won the PEN/L. L. Winship Award for Best Work of Nonfiction of 2010. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, and elsewhere.

Articles

Nudie and the Cosmic American

By Elyssa East
Issue 93, Summer 2016

The Ballad of Harlan County

I was climbing the mountain of my relatives’ former coal mine in Harlan County, Kentucky, walking the land where my grandfather worked for nearly forty years.

By Elyssa East
Issue 99, Winter 2017

“I’m Going to Organize, Baby Mine”

In contrast to the music of her siblings, there’s a tenderness and vulnerability to Gunning’s songs, which are drawn from her life in the way of gospel testimonies.

By Elyssa East