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Leah Sottile

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Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood || Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville || This account is inactive

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My work as appeared in The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, The Pacific Northwest Inlander, Willamette Week, Seattle Weekly, Vegetarian Times, The Portland Mercury, Decibel, GEEK and Bitch Magazine, among others.

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Evergreen state of mind: Washington pot sales begin, despite shortages | Al Jazeera America

Evergreen state of mind: Washington pot sales begin, despite shortages | Al Jazeera America

Retail marijuana shops kick off, though slow licensing has partially blunted high expectations for recreation…

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Washington pauses to reflect on death penalty

Washington pauses to reflect on death penalty

Moratorium relieves some victims’ loved ones, opens dialogue on cost and effectiveness of executions

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When adults go missing, only questions remain

When adults go missing, only questions remain

The strange, complicated world of finding a missing adult

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Living Sick and Dying Young in Rich America

Living Sick and Dying Young in Rich America

Chronic illness is the new first-world problem.

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Three-strikes law causing pricey glut of lifers without parole

Three-strikes law causing pricey glut of lifers without parole

Expensive and, critics say, unjust life sentences for low-level street crimes remove chance of criminals' reh…

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MDMA's promise of a risk-free high is what makes it so dangerous

MDMA's promise of a risk-free high is what makes it so dangerous

Molly, Ecstasy, MDMA — they all can have consequences, with a hand in several deaths this year alone

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72. Popular Zealotry

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Newspaper clippings from the 1990s showing the ways colloidal silver was marketed as a health supplement After the publication of my first book, When the Moon Turns to Blood, I was very, very tired, and my mind was very, very broken. In the years leading up to its publication, I had written about many dark, difficult things, but nothing that came anywhere near the case of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell.
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The Truth Does Not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It

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Portrait of a surprised person. Happy spring, friends. Before we get into today’s interview, I wanted to drop the excellent news that Blazing Eye Sees All won the Oregon Book Award for Nonfiction. Here’s a photo of me trying not to cry at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony. I distinctly remember one night in June 2023 while I was writing the book. I was sitting alone in a hotel room where I’d locked myself for days with all of my files. My deadline was two months away.
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A snapshot of the Damián Ortega exhibit at Museo Del Palacio De Bellas Artes, which gave me teleportation vibes, but in a cool way. (Photo by me) You have heard of whitewashing, and greenwashing, but have you put much thought into sanewashing? I could define this term for you, but in this season of Easter — a time of worship of a fella who said it better to teach a person to fish than do it for them — let us cast our lines, readers, into the waters of the Internet for a sanewashing lesson.
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Awards

Washington State Mental Health Reporting Award

2012
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Association of Alternative News Media Award

2010 - Music Criticism, First Place
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