"Now, Appalachia" Interview with historical mystery author Jess Montgomery by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network published on 2019-06-05T22:26:15Z Authors on the Air Global Radio Network host and thriller author Eliot Parker interviews Ohio author Jess Montgomery. Jess is the Literary Life columnist for the Dayton Daily News and Executive Director of the renowned Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Based on early chapters of The Widows, Jess was awarded an Ohio Arts Council individual artist’s grant for literary arts and the John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in Columbus. She lives in her native state of Ohio. Genre Storytelling