Katherine Dalton

Katherine Dalton
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Katherine Dalton has worked as a magazine editor, freelance feature writer and book editor.  She started in journalism in college, working at The Yale Literary Magazine during most of its controversial few years as a national magazine of opinion based at Yale.  She then worked briefly at Harper's magazine in New York, and more extensively at Chronicles magazine in Illinois, where she was a contributing editor for many years.  She has has written for various publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to the University Bookman, and was a contributor to Wendell Berry: Life and Work and Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto.  She lives in her native Kentucky.

Recent Essays

Dear Santa

You may think every five- to eight-year-old you know wanted an iPod this year. Not these kids.

Julian Assange & the Face of Placelessness

From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.

The Ode Familiar

A call for your favorite poems of place.

Sunny Side Up

There are still some enterprising farm kids around, making a good business out of your need to eat.

Rootedness & Rand Paul

What does it mean to be a Kentuckian, or a Kentucky senator? Does place have any place in a national election?

Give Us This Day Our Bread–Perennially

Planting a greener Green Revolution.

Everything I Ever Learned About Civility I Learned in a Small Town

For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.

The Cherry Now

I have a long history with the sour cherry. Here is some of it.

Thinking about Spills

Wendell Berry turns his attention toward an intentional spill in Kentucky.

In the Good News Department

Down in West Texas there is a one-armed cotton farmer named Cliff Etheredge who has turned the sirocco that blows through his part of the country into an asset—and not just for himself, but for hundreds of his neighbors.

Chalk One Up for Organic

Some scientific arguments on energy use are based on data that do not take enough factors into account

My Little Ole Ballot Box

Making the case for nuclear power. Since everyone else is.