—Cynthia R. Greenlee, who wrote about South Carolina moonshine makers (p. 140)
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
WRITER
The journalist and scholar Cynthia R. Greenlee’s creativity comes through in her stories: her James Beard Award-winning essay on grits for , for instance, or the article for this issue on a family of moonshine makers in South Carolina (p. 140). “But as much as I love writing, I need to do other things to open up the other parts of my brain—like gardening,” she says. “Weeding is one of the best ways to overcome writer’s block for me.” Recently, she’s been “rewilding” her Durham, North Carolina, front