Silas House is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nine novels, a book of creative nonfiction, and four plays and served as the 2023-2025 Poet Laureate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, The Bitter Southerner, The Advocate, Garden and Gun, and many other of the nation’s leading publications. As a music journalist, House has worked with artists such as Kacey Musgraves, Tyler Childers, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Charley Crockett, Jason Isbell, Lee Ann Womack, Kenny Chesney, S.G. Goodman, and many others. He is also an executive producer and one of the subjects of the award-winning 2018 film Hillbilly, which was purchased by Hulu.
House serves on the fiction faculty at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing and as the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Berea College, where he recently took over as editor in chief for The Appalachian Review, the region’s leading literary magazine.
A proud native of Southeastern Kentucky, Silas currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
