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Jessica Cory

@jessicascory.bsky.social
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Editor of Appalachian Journal. Scholar, educator, writer. Books with WVU Press and U of Georgia Press. Lover of gardening, living with MCAS/hEDS/other immune wonkiness. www.jessicascory.com

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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks to the amazing Morgan DePue for this flyer! We look forward to seeing y'all Oct. 17 at 6PM at Huzzah!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey friends! Mark your calendars to join me and Morgan DePue as we read from our recent chapbooks at Huzzah! Books in Boone, Saturday, Oct. 17 at 6 PM.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey friends! Next Wednesday, thanks to Erica Abrams Locklear and UNCA, Nico Zegre and I will be talking about Appalachian Flooding in Fact and Fiction! It's free, but you need to register at this link: www.unca.edu/event/appala...
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This presentation comes from my chapter in Jada Ach and Kristen Brown's edited collection, Redefining Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity. www.routledge.com/Redefining-L...
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Looking forward to presenting virtually today at the Western Literature Association's conference on land management practices in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Asheville area friends! Check out this amazing event hosted by UNCA and facilitated by the indefatigable Erica Abrams Locklear. I can't wait to be in conversation with Dr. Nico Zegre (and the audience). Come if you can (and please register first)!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Come grab a pint and listen to some poetry! Tomorrow night I'll be reading from 6-7 at The Blind Elk Tap Room as part of the Appalachians on Tap series hosted by Lees-McRae's Stephenson Center for Appalachian Studies. A HUGE thank you to Catherine Pritchard Childress for making this happen!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I figured a parody form and cheap beer made good company! I appreciate you sharing this!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thanks so much for sharing, Andrew!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hey friends! If you missed the Sheila-Na-Gig reading to introduce Disposable to the world, you can check it out on YouTube: youtu.be/HxqlsGCPZPM?...
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Author copies arrived today! And pre-orders are open until June 15, so head on over to Sheila-Na-Gig to get discounted pricing. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My spouse on my lack of brevity in writing (and life, really): "You're like the Grateful Dead of academia. Here, listen to this 25-minute guitar solo, except that solo is a footnote." 🤣 I can put "Grateful Dead of academia" on my business cards, right?
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thank you so much for including it 💜
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm beyond thrilled to contribute to @reckonreview.bsky.social as a Wind & Root columnist. Many thanks to @meaganlucas.bsky.social and Charlotte Smith Hamrick for this opportunity! reckonreview.com/chronically-...
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CHRONICALLY WRITING: Making Time to Write with Chronic Illness | by Jessica Cory – Reckon Review
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is an issue you won't want to miss, and not just because I have an award-winning essay in it on the Vietnam War memoir of Lumbee Marine Delano Cummings (with tons of insights from Carla Locklear and René Locklear White). See the press release here: nclr.ecu.edu/2026/05/15/2...
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“Military Writing in North Carolina” 2026 Issue of NCLR Highlights the “universal emotions of war”   – North Carolina Literary Review
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Hey friends, I just learned that the upcoming print issue of North Carolina Literary Review with a special section on NC military writing is in press and will be out next month.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Big news, friends! My new chapbook, Disposable, is now available for pre-order from Sheila-Na-Gig editions! HUGE thanks to Hayley Mitchell Haugen for her support and to Julia WD Harrison for the phenomenal cover art. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...
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Coming Soon! Disposableby Jessica CoryISBN: 9781962405805$14.00 (+ $4.63 US Shipping) PRE-ORDER DISCOUNT: $11.20 ($4.63 Shipping)through June 15. Please check your SHIPPING ADDRESS on PayPal when p…
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I really wish Appalachian Journal and As the Crow Flies contributors (and potential contributors) could see the happy dances and hear the "oohs" and "ahhs" when I read y'all's work. Seriously. I'd post video, but I'd embarrass myself.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Planning to see Ron Rash at Huzzah! tonight at 7, but he was in conversation with Jesse Graves and later read as well. Thanks so much to all the folks for their hard work in bringing us together for literature. It was great to see old friends and put faces and voices to new ones!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Had such a fun time at the ETSU Literary Festival yesterday (which was also Earth Day--hooray)! So wonderful to hear amazing works by emerging student writers alongside Nickole Brown, Rose McLarney, and Juan Martinez!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Thanks bunches!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Look at this beautiful cover, friends! The spring edition of Appalachian Journal should be hitting mailboxes beginning next week.
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📚Nonfiction reviews in Journal of Appalachian Studies 31.2: @jessicascory.bsky.social reviews "Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival." Plus, reviews of "Hillbilly Highway" (@princetonupress.bsky.social), "No Son of Mine," and "Troublesome Rising." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jas/issu...
Cover of Journal of Appalachian Studies, Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 2025
Silhouette of a tree on a hill in front of a cloudy sky, blue background
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'm thrilled to have a chapter, “Violence against the Land is Violence against the People: Land Management Tactics in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms" included in this exciting volume edited by Jada Ach and Kristen Brown. Pre-orders are open now with a June 2026 release. www.routledge.com/Redefining-L...
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Redefining Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in the lands and waters that comprise what is now known as North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-enviro...
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Friends and colleagues in Native and Indigenous lit, the fantastic English Dept at App State is hiring: english.appstate.edu/news/we-are-...
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We Are Hiring an Assistant Professor of North American Indigenous Literatures
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
and for including my article, “Another Anthropocene: Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Coastal Indigenous Poetry." You can read the full issue here: amlit.eu/index.php/am...
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View of Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025): Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
SUPER thankful to the brilliant Brian Railsback for editing a special issue of AmLit on American Literatures, Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere,
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Friends and neighbors, As the Crow Flies, the open-access expansion of Appalachian Journal, is now live if you wanna go take a peek: as-the-crow-flies.pubpub.org
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As the Crow Flies
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The husband and kiddo have birthdays next week, so today we're heading to Scarowinds to celebrate. In related news, I just saw the tracking update that my CBD-infused arthritis salve is also arriving today. #perfecttiming
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I had a blast talking with @thejeremybjones.bsky.social about his new book, Cipher, with @blairpub.bsky.social. A huge thanks to Jeremy and @reckonreview.bsky.social for putting this conversation out into the world!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Appalachian Journal readers, check this out!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We don't really have raccoons, so it's a trade-off, I suppose. But yeah, those jerks took every single peach. That'll teach me to go away for the weekend. On the bright side, they're too full to get into the bird feeder like they normally do.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Why, yes, I did just write an angry version of "This Is Just to Say" to the squirrels who cleared our entire peach tree before I could can a single one.
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Climate Home News @climatechangenews.com · 25/07/2025
In a landmark case brought by the sinking Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, the ICJ’s 15 judges decided unanimously that governments have a legal duty to protect the climate.
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World's top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis
International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
App Studies friends, check out the newest map by Tribal Nations Maps/Aaron Carapella: www.tribalnationsmaps.com/store/p3946/...
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Indigenous Nations of Appalachia Map - 18"x24"
Reservations of Montana, List of Indian Tribes, Location of Indian Tribes, Original Native Indian Tribes
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Excited to attend the launch of the NC Poetry Society's 2025-26 Poetry in Plain Sight Program in Durham today! My poem "Ode to the Pill Bug" will be featured in May.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/03/2025
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Fiction-writing friends!
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 03/03/2025
University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won’t work, writes @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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Universities Are Under Attack. Silence Is Not an Option.
University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won't work.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Thought I heard a car door slam outside. Nope, just this furry beast jumping the 14 inches from lounger to floor.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/03/2025
🎶 Working 8 to 6, but they call you after hours Barely gettin’ by, lots of crying in the shower You might prequalify, won’t even hurt your credit Ran out of sick days--well, I hope y'all don’t catch it 🎶
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Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” Adjusted for Late-Stage Capitalism
In case you need help with the tune. - - -Come in on a Sunday? You’ve gotta be jokin’ Christmas bonus was a car wash token Startin’ to think our sy...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2025
The House budget reconciliation framework that cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid has just passed. They are literally taking from the sick and poor to give the rich tax cuts.
The image is a screenshot of an MSNBC news broadcast covering a House of Representatives vote. The main portion of the screen shows a live scene from the House chamber with a vote tally displayed, indicating the results for House Concurrent Resolution 14 (H CON RES 14). The vote breakdown is:

Republicans: 216 Yea, 1 Nay, 3 Not Voting

Democrats: 212 Nay

Independents: 0 votes

Total: 216 Yea, 213 Nay, 4 Not Voting The bottom of the screen has a red "Breaking News" banner stating, "HOUSE GOP VOTES ON BUDGET DEAL THAT THREATENS MEDICAID."

On the right side of the screen, there are two smaller video panels:

1. The top panel features MSNBC host Chris Hayes speaking, with the show's logo "ALL IN" visible in the background.

2. The bottom panel shows a congressman in a suit speaking in a government building.

The broadcast time is displayed as 8:14 PM ET at the top left and 7:14 PM CT at the bottom right. The setting is Capitol Hill.
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
That's how it's done in our house. It's that not how everyone else plays?
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Almost show time!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Looking forward to leading a breakout session on providing feedback to writers at the NC College Media Association's conference in Boone today!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Y'all, I just got the printed proofs back for Appalachian Journal's first-ever full-color issue focusing on Appalachian visual art and it's GORGEOUS!
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Jessica Cory @jessicascory.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
As someone who has participated in clinical trials as a patient, this move is extremely reckless and unethical.
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