Author

Zack Harold

Journalist

Zack Harold is a West Virginia native, the grandson of a coal miner, the son of a Pentecostal preacher, a former newspaper and magazine editor and a freelance journalist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Republic, Lapham's Quarterly and 100 Days in Appalachia.

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