Elizabeth Catte

Elizabeth Catte is a writer and historian from East Tennessee with a PhD in public history from Middle Tennessee State University. She co-owns Passel, a historical consulting firm. Her book What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia (Belt Publishing, 2018) critiques recent writing about the region, including J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. She is also an editor at large for West Virginia University Press and lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.