Jeff Biggers

Jeff Biggers is an award-winning cultural historian, journalist, playwright, and novelist whose works span nonfiction, fiction, and theater. He coauthored the novel "Disturbing the Bones" with filmmaker Andrew Davis and penned acclaimed nonfiction titles such as "In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy" and "Trials of a Scold," longlisted for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. His other notable works include "State Out of the Union," selected as a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Social Science Book, and "Reckoning at Eagle Creek," which earned both the Delta Award for Literature and the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting.

Biggers' writing explores themes of history, environmental justice, and cultural identity, often blending rigorous research with narrative storytelling. His works, including "The United States of Appalachia" and "In the Sierra Madre," have been praised for their insightful examinations of regional and global landscapes. As a journalist, his reporting has appeared in prominent outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR, while his editorial contributions include coediting the American Book Award-winning "No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems of Don West." Biggers also founded the Climate Narrative Project, a media arts initiative addressing environmental issues.