Erik Reece is an American writer, the author of two books of nonfiction Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia and An American Gospel: On Family, History, and The Kingdom of God, and numerous essays and magazine articles, published in Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, and Orion Magazine. He also maintains a blog ​“The Future We Want” for True/​Slant.