Reece, Erik

Erik Reece is an American writer. He is the author of six books of nonfiction - Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006) and An American Gospel: On Family, History, and The Kingdom of God (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009), The Embattled Wilderness (Atlanta, University of Georgia Press, 2013), Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea (New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2017), Practice Resurrection (Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2017), Clear Creek: Toward a Natural Philosophy (Charleston: West Virginia University Press, 2023), one book of poetry,Kingfisher Blues (Lexington: Fireside Industries Press, 2024), and numerous essays and magazine articles, published in Harper's Magazine, The Nation, and Orion magazine. He also maintains a blog The Future We Want for True/Slant. He is writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, where he teaches environmental journalism, writing, and literature.