About Jason Jason Howard is the coauthor of Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal (with Silas House) and the editor of We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop Removal. He is a former senior editor and staff writer for Equal Justice Magazine (EJM), based in Washington, D.C. While working for EJM, Howard wrote investigative articles on such subjects as the efforts of Eastern Kentucky miners to receive black lung benefits, assisted adoption cases in Manhattan, and an eminent domain case before the Supreme Court. Howard's feature articles and creative nonfiction essays have been widely anthologized and have appeared in such publications as Paste, The Louisville Review, Appalachian Heritage, New Southerner, Kentucky Living, and many others. He is the nonfiction editor for Still: The Journal. He is the recipient of the prestigious James Still Fellowship from the University of Kentucky, and has been awarded several grants from the Kentucky Arts Council. Howard graduated from The George Washington University with a degree in Political Communication, an interdisciplinary major of Political Science, Journalism, Communication, and Electronic Media. He currently lives in Berea, Kentucky, widely known as "the place to be for the apocalypse." |
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