Sam Adams

Over the past 40 years Sam Adams has worked as a reporter, editor, firefighter, paramedic, search and rescue officer, and deputy sheriff. He has written thousands of news stories on subjects including healthcare, government, crime, the environment, and natural disasters; covered the United Nations Conference of Parties in Mexico as an Earth Journalism Fellow, and traveled to Denmark to write about that nation's energy industries and policies.

His books include Precious Blood and T.D. and the Tater, and his essay on Appalachia's relationship to water appears in Water in Kentucky from the University Press of Kentucky.

He lives with his wife, their youngest child, and a menagerie of pets in the Appalachian Mountains, where his ancestors settled more than 200 years ago.