Katherine Webb-Hehn is a freelance journalist and mother in Birmingham, Alabama. By examining justice in the American South, she hopes to reframe national and international narrative structures in media that perpetuate myths about the folks who call this region home. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and news outlets, including the New York Times, Bitter Southerner, Longreads, PANK, the Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, Audubon Magazine, Southerly, Scalawag, and more. She's also the recipient of a Marguerite Casey Foundation Journalism Fellowship.