Christina Fisanick is professor of writing and literature at Pennsylvania Western University. She is the co-author of Digital Storytelling as Public History (Routledge, 2020), which grew from her fourteen-year collaboration with Pittsburgh’s Heinz History Center, and the author or editor of more than 30 books, including Pulling the Thread: Untangling Wheeling History (North Meridian, 2024). A native West Virginian whose work explores labor, resilience, identity, and working-class life in Northern Appalachia, she is co-editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies and president of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia. Learn more at https://christinafisanick.com/
