Notes from the Journey Westward

Notes from the Journey Westward

About the Substack

A novelist, essayist, and poet, I write about landscape, loss, class, family, memory, and the American West. I try to interrogate notions of masculinity and am always paying attention to rural spaces and the rural/urban divide.

About Joe Wilkins

Joe Wilkins is the author of a novel, Fall Back Down When I Die; a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers; and four collections of poetry, including When We Were Birds and Thieve.