THE TRAGEDY OF CENTRALIA

High Country News

THE MOVEMENT TO MAKE OREGON GREAT AGAIN

High Country News

THE CHAOS AGENTS

New York Times Magazine

THE 90-FOOT SENTINEL OF BUTTE, MONTANA

High Country News

Something's Brewing in the Deep Red West

Rolling Stone

Hunting Hate

The Guardian

Who's Treading Now?

High Country News

The Man Who Created Bigfoot

Outside Magazine

The Book Behind the Bundy Standoff

Washington Post

THIS IS MEANT TO HURT YOU

Moss

The Silver Valley Gets Its Fight Back

Al Jazeera America

The Cloud

Al Jazeera America

The Shepherd

The Inlander

Who is Pete Santilli?

Washington Post

A TEENAGER AND ONE GRAM OF WEED

Willamette Week

Did James Plymell Need to Die?

High Country News

Bundyville

Longreads

The Conversion Therapist is Gay

California Sunday Magazine

Derailed

High Country News

BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS

High Country News

The Publicly-Traded Man Goes NSFW

Playboy

Last Man Standing

Outside Magazine

Send Me a Pic of U

California Sunday Magazine

Protecting Faith Healers

High Country News

Portland's Complicated History

Washington Post

Harvey, My Visible Friend

Portland Monthly Magazine

"Where Our Blood Went Into The Ground"

Spokesman-Review

Never Too Old

The Inlander

The Ghost Hunter

The Atavist

A Teen and a Toy Gun

Longreads

Letter of Recommendation: Ronnie James Dio

New York Times

Racist Policing Plagues Portland Nightclubs

High Country News

The Verdict

Washington Post

Staying Evel

Al Jazeera America

"No Hate, No Fear"

Willamette Week

When Does Drunk Sex Become Rape?

Broadly

"Just Because I Work Here Doesn't Mean I Don't Respect Myself"

The Atlantic

Blood Sport

The Inlander

How Rachel Dolezal Made a Community Believe

Washington Post

Ken Ward is Willing to Go to Jail for the Rest of His Life

Willamette Week

"Everyone Started Screaming"

California Sunday Magazine

Finding Valhalla

Portland Monthly Magazine

Leah Sottile is the author of When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell and a Story of Murder, Faith and End Times (Twelve). As a freelance journalist, her features, profiles, investigations and essays have been published by the Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Rolling Stone, California Sunday Magazine, Outside, The Atlantic and High Country News. She is the host of the podcasts Burn Wild and Two Minutes Past Nine, produced with the BBC, and the National Magazine Award-nominated series Bundyville. She is an occasional fiction writer and teacher, and lives in Oregon.