Silas House

Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, one book of creative nonfiction, and three plays. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, the New York Times, the Advocate, Time, Garden & Gun, and other publications. A former commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, he is the winner of two Nautilus Awards, the Storylines Prize from the NAV/New York Public Library, an E. B. White Award, and the Southern Book Prize. He served as the poet laureate of Kentucky for the years 2023-2025. In 2022 he was the recipient of the Duggins Prize, the largest award for an LGBTQ writer in the nation. House teaches at Berea College in Kentucky, where he is the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair, and at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing.