Leah Sottile | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Jesuit High School (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| Alma mater | Gonzaga University |
Leah Sottile is an American journalist, writer, and podcast host who lives in Portland, Oregon. [1]
Sottile graduated from Gonzaga University in 2003. [2] [3]
Sottile is the author of the book When the Moon Turns to Blood, about the Vallow/Daybell case. [4]
Sottile covered the Malheur occupation court trials for The Washington Post and Outside, and regularly talked about the trials as a guest on Oregon Public Broadcasting programming. [5] [6] [7] She is the host of the podcasts Bundyville and Bundyville: The Remnant , produced through Longreads, and Two Minutes Past Nine produced by BBC Radio 4. She has written for Rolling Stone , Outside, High Country News and The Washington Post on subjects related to the American West.
Sottile was also the music editor of Spokane, Washington's alt-weekly newspaper, The Inlander. She characterizes bands in Spokane as "willing to take a lot more risks," and also says that: "It's super easy to disregard Spokane. It's seen as a cultural void. But there is a really mobilized youth art movement here that's always anchored in the music scene. I've seen shows in boxing rings, art centers, [and] all kinds of alternative spaces. People in Spokane are scrappy about making it work. That's the backbone of the scene: making a party where there wasn't one before." [8]
Sottile won first place in a Society of Professional Journalists 2015 competition for the Willamette Week article "The Newest Portlanders". [9] Sottile has been a professor of journalism at the University of Montana. [10]
While on staff with The Inlander, Sottile won the Washington State 2011–2012 Mental Health Reporting Award for "The People Left Behind," which features "an in-depth exploration of a 13-year-old's death by suicide and the broader issues of mental health and suicide-prevention in Spokane and the Inland Empire". She also won third place in a Society of Professional Journalists 2010 competition for "Blood Sport," an article on backyard wrestling in Spokane. [11]
Sottile was also a guest on KUOW-FM programming, where she talked about an article she wrote for Outside about a Bigfoot sighting by Bob Gimlin. [12]