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Patrick O'Dowd

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Senior Acquisitions Editor at @KentuckyPress.

 Lexington, KY
Joined April 2007
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Waking up to find out through twitter that Drinking from Graveyard Wells was shortlisted for the Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction😭😭💙judged by Tochi Onyebuchu, Karen Joy Fowler, Alexander Chee & more. Literally only finding out now😭💙
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I’m proud that one of my conversations with my friend bell hooks is included in the forthcoming book _bell hooks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations_. Our talk is featured today in @washingtonpost. #bellhooks washingtonpost.com/books/202…
Perspective | What’s in a name? For poet and activist bell hooks, there was a lot.

Perspective | What’s in a name? For poet and activist bell hooks, there was a lot.

An excerpt from poet and activist bell hooks's last interview, which touches on race, gender and life in the South.

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“Devastating and hopeful in turn yet always resonant...[L]ines as clear and fraught as poetry. Worldbuilding immersive and masterful.” @mayagittelman reviews Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s “unmissable” debut collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells: tor.com/2023/05/02/drinking-…
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#OneDayforUK is here, and we are asking for your donation. The University Press of Kentucky is a non-profit publisher that has been producing high-quality books for over 75 years. Every gift, no matter how small, makes a difference! Donate now at buff.ly/3L7R3CD
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It’s spooky season! So excited to share this wonderful blurb about my debut collection from a master of AfroSurreal horror @pdjeliclark . If you like stories about ghosts, hauntings, & African mythology that centers Black women pre-order: kentuckypress.com/9780813196… @KentuckyPress
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If you like these books, you will like Drinking from Graveyard Wells! @KentuckyPress kentuckypress.com/9780813196…
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The cover for Yvette Ndlovu's @lisa_teabag DRINKING FROM GRAVEYARD WELLS will be revealed to the public SEPTEMBER 2 on @locusmag (locusmag.com). Keep and eye out 👀 and pre-order your copy now at kentuckypress.com!
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Register now! Virtual First Friday - The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad, with Dr. Alicestyne Turley history.ky.gov/events/virtua… via @KyHistSoc
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The Kentucky Press Warehouse Sale is on now! Up to 75% off! - mailchi.mp/050425dd1eed/apri…
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In Perfect Black by @CrystalWilki, Kentucky’s poet laureate plumbs the topography, agriculture, and culture of her family and home state. Perfect Black is part of our @BitterSouth 2022 Summer Reading Roundup curated by @alisonlaw📚 bittersoutherner.com/feature…
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Confused why these replies see "publicist" and "agent" as dirty words...I want knowledge/research/history/theory to get out as far and wide to as many people as possible! Academics should EMBRACE their opportunity to create and embody a public platform. Share beyond the academy! – at Manor, TX
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Appalachian Futures: @KentuckyPress is accepting submissions for Appalachian Futures! This series, edited by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Davis Shoulders, and Crystal Wilkinson, will give voice to Black, Native, Latinx, Asian, Queer,
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“We don’t need to lose another community — and another community and another community — every fire season. Once we start focusing on the right places, it’s going to be incredibly effective.” – Dr. Chad Hanson, @JohnMuirProject latimes.com/california/story…
As California burns, some ecologists say it's time to rethink forest management

As California burns, some ecologists say it's time to rethink forest management

Logging and thinning trees isn't stopping wildfires, ecologists say. Focusing on homes can help avert more tragedies like Paradise and Greenville.

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Silas House named editor of Fireside Industries; Imprint is a partnership between the University Press of Kentucky and Hindman Settlement School ^JB
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NEW: Tourism in KY's Red River Gorge @NatGeoTravel “The quickest way for [the Gorge] become Gatlinburg is for it to continue its current unplanned growth... Right now, anybody could put a limestone quarry next to a souvenir shop next to a hog farm.” nationalgeographic.com/trave…
Eastern Kentucky is poised for an ecotourism boom—but a new resort sparks debate

Eastern Kentucky is poised for an ecotourism boom—but a new resort sparks debate

A proposed project on the edge of the protected Red River Gorge highlights community tensions and possible solutions.

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SMOKESCREEN confronts the devastating cost of current wildfire policies and practices head-on and ultimately offers a hopeful vision and practical suggestions for the future . . . SMOKESCREEN is out this May!
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Here’s the one recipe Ouita Michel wishes had gone in her first cookbook, six years in the making, but didn’t kentucky.com/lexgoeat/food/a…
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Are you attending #AppStudies2021? If so, be sure not to miss the Opening Ceremony at 2 pm today—a panel discussion about our new APPALACHIAN FUTURES series, featuring the series editors @ASClapsaddle, @CrystalWilki, and @BooksellerMonk in conversation with @CarterSickels!
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On March 16, University Press Of Kentucky will release “Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts,” a book about the United States Narcotic Farm, which opened in 1935 in Kentucky horse country. Here is an excerpt. leoweekly.com/2021/03/narcot…
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#4 - After you read that piece, you gotta read @outtherejch’s follow up. rewirenewsgroup.com/article/…
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