Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including Lark Ascending, which was a Booklist Editors’ Choice and is the winner of the 2023 Southern Book Prize and the 2023 Nautilus Book Award. Four of his plays have been produced. He is also the author of the 2009 book of creative nonfiction Something’s Rising (with co-author Jason Kyle Howard). Recent publications include All These Ghosts, a poetry collection, and–under a slight pseudonym–a murder-mystery titled Dead Man Blues.
In 2023, he was inducted as the Poet Laureate of Kentucky for 2023-2025 and became a Grammy finalist. In 2022, he was the recipient of the Duggins Prize, the largest award for an LGBTQ writer in the nation. The same year, he was named Appalachian of the Year in a nationwide poll.
Additionally, House’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Garden & Gun, The New York Times, The Bitter Southerner, and many more of the country’s leading publications. As a music journalist, House has worked with Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves, Lucinda Williams, Tyler Childers, S.G. Goodman, Lee Ann Womack, Kris Kristofferson, S.G. Goodman, and many other musicians. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the recipient of three honorary degrees, and has been given such honors as an E. B. White Award, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, the Lee Smith Award, the Caritas Medal, the Hobson Medal, and many others.
We are excited to welcome Silas House to Word of South, where he will appear on the Salvation Stage as part of our Appalachian lineup.
Silas House
