This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
J. D. Wilkes
About
J. D. Wilkes is an American visual artist, musician, author, filmmaker, and lead singer of the Legendary Shack Shakers, whose latest album is After You've Gone. Wilkes is the author of a book of nonfiction, Barn Dances and Jamborees Across Kentucky, and the novel The Vine That Ate the South, described by NPR as "Undeniably one of the smartest, most original Southern Gothic novels to come along in years.” His new album is Fire Dream.