More flooding, linked to climate change, means more landslides across eastern Kentucky. But without insurance, how will people pay for the damages?
Story by Austyn Gaffney & Martha Park
This story was published in collaboration with Grist and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
This story was written by Austyn Gaffney and illustrated by Martha Park. It was edited by Rachel Priest with assistance from Jaime Buerger, Teresa Chin, John Thomason, David Wallis, and Dave Whitling. Megan Merrigan and Angelica Arinze handled promotion. Jason Castro and Mignon Khargie handled development. Copy edits by Lisa Axelberg.
Austyn Gaffney is a freelance writer based in Kentucky. Her creative work is featured in Brevity, Ecotone, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others; her journalism appears in The Guardian, National Geographic, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vice, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Kentucky.
Martha Park is a writer and illustrator from Memphis, Tennessee. She is a 2022-2023 Fellow with the Religion & Environment Story Project and a recipient of the William Graves Sackett Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in Oxford American, The Guardian, Guernica, Granta, Ecotone, ProPublica, and elsewhere.
