The Bitter Southerner

Click the link above to read the full article by Boyce Upholt with outstanding photographs by Rory Boyle.

Boyce Upholt is a “nature critic” whose writing probes the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world, especially in the U.S. South. His work has been published in The Atlantic, National Geographic, Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He was awarded the 2019 James Beard Award for investigative journalism. His stories have been noted in the The Best American Science & Nature Writing and The Best American Nonrequired Reading series. He lives in New Orleans.

Rory Doyle is a working photographer based in Cleveland, Mississippi, in the rural Mississippi Delta. Born and raised in Maine, Doyle studied journalism at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. In 2009, he moved to Mississippi to pursue a master’s degree at Delta State University. Doyle has remained committed to photographing Mississippi and the South, with a particular focus on sharing stories from the Delta.