I am from Appalachia — a native of Webster Springs, West Virginia, a graduate of WVU and West Virginia Wesleyan — a poet, a writer and an engineer. My father’s side of the family traces their roots to Burnsville and Cabin Creek, WV. My mother’s side of the family, however, hails from the small Caribbean island of Grenada. So between his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy,and his recent vitriolic comments about Haitian migrants, who like my…


