Edited by Jessica M. Jones and Amanda E. Hayes
This collection of over thirty pieces explores the connections between Appalachia’s stories, traditions, and modern events and the pathway to regional sustainability.
written by Meghana Mysore
In Meghana Mysore’s debut short story collection, present-day women and girls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with belonging and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances.
written by Judy Sandler
A mother’s memoir that reckons with her son’s descent into severe mental illness. What appears to be substance use disorder in high school later becomes a dual diagnosis as bipolar disorder emerges.
HOW THE U.S. FOOD SYSTEM CULTIVATES, CONSUMES, AND CONCEALS ITS VIOLENCE
By Stian Rice
This collection of over thirty pieces explores the connections between Appalachia’s stories, traditions, and modern events and the pathway to regional sustainability.
The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Politics of Localism in Appalachia, 1968–2000
BY jinny turman
The late 1960s found young, middle-class, white Americans embracing localism to escape federal bureaucracies and an increasingly impersonal society. The “back-to-the-landers” took this one step further by moving to rural areas, including Appalachia, in pursuit of self-reliance, liberation, and community.
At West Virginia University Press, we publish scholarly, creative, and regionally-focused books.
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What Kind of Mother
A Reckoning
Let All Our Ghosts Depart
Stories
The New Decentralists
The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Politics of Localism in Appalachia, 1968-2000
Wide Branches, Deep Roots
How Appalachian Wisdom Can Help in the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Elsewhere
How the US Food System Cultivates, Consumes, and Conceals Its Violence
Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast
Contemporary Petrofiction from Denmark and Norway
Above the Oxbow
Stories Entangled with a Mountain
Beyond Ourselves
Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser
Permafrost Is an Archive
and Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
Dizzy
A Memoir
Connective Tissue Series
Connective Tissue is a broad series exploring the human condition and its intersection with health, illness, and healing through the lens of the humanities and its methodologies, as well as through expressive creative works that illuminate people’s lived experience with health, illness, and medicine. This series seeks to publish books that cover innovative approaches to healthcare, integrating expressive arts and humanities practices into health settings, as well as books of creative writing that artfully render stories of illness, disability, and healthcare.
What Kind of Mother
Dizzy
Download a digital copy of our Fall 2026 catalog and discover a season of compelling fiction, creative nonfiction, and scholarly works. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, these books explore topics that resonate both within Appalachia and beyond.
West Virginia University Athletics
Almost Heaven
The Backyard Brawl
Saturday Snapshots
Roll Out the Carpet
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Appalachian Reckoning
Another Appalachia
This Book is Free and Yours to Keep
Saharan Winds
