Tennessee-based writer and journalist S. Heather Duncan covers two recently published books by Jessica Wilkerson and Ginny Savage Ayers that uplift lesser known histories of Appalachian women at the heart of hard-fought labor struggles.
Heather Duncan
S. Heather Duncan is a print and radio reporter and storyteller raised in Appalachia and living in Knoxville, Tennessee. She has won regional, state and national awards for her newspaper coverage of the environment, business, and government, as well as for feature writing. In her free time she enjoys hiking, whaling on the clarinet, and learning the knack of making five-star fried okra, biscuits, and chicken korma (although not necessarily together).