Katie Myers is a writer in the mountain South. Previously, she worked as a climate solutions fellow at Grist, and a reporter at WMMT 88.7 FM, an eastern Kentucky community radio station. Her work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and Scalawag Magazine, among others, as well as onstage in Nashville, New York, and Knoxville. She writes about rural politics, energy transition, climate, and labor. She’ll travel to Germany and Poland to study the transition away from coal.