About Carol Countryman

Carol Countryman is a Texas writer and journalist whose investigative work has appeared in Texas Monthly, The Dallas Morning News, The Texas Observer, Texas Business Magazine, The Progressive, The Progressive Populist, Southern Exposure, and other regional and national outlets. Her reporting focused on environmental justice, labor abuses, rural politics, and corporate accountability in East Texas—stories that often made powerful people uncomfortable.

Her work did not end at publication. It continues to be cited in major academic and legal scholarship, including Texas Lawyer, Texas Law Review, Case Western Reserve Law Review, the Texas Water Journal, and research repositories such as JSTOR, SSRN, the National Agricultural Law Center, and Iowa Research Online.

Her reporting was also featured by Gary Cartwright, a longtime Texas Monthly writer, following her public confrontation with poultry magnate Bo Pilgrim—a moment that underscored the stakes of her work and the costs of telling the truth in small places.

Her fiction has appeared in the Concho River Review. She continues to publish essays and long-form work on Substack in her series Tales from East Texas, which explores the intersection of history, memory, and place.

Her current project, Psalm of Lies, is a Southern Gothic novel of truth, trauma, and inheritance drawn from her own family history in Dallas and East Texas.

She has recently completed the first novel in a thriller series and is preparing it for publication.

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