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Buckhannon native Jayne Anne Phillips is an acclaimed novelist and short story writer whose work centers on family, love, and Appalachian life. Her six short story collections and five novels have earned wide praise, with Lark and Termite (2009) nominated for a National Book Award and Quiet Dell (2013) exploring a real 1931 murder case.
Her stories have appeared in major publications like Esquire and Harper's, and she’s received honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O. Henry Award, and the Sue Kaufman Award. In 2023, her Civil War-era novel Night Watch, set in the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
