Harper Alerion is a writer and artist based in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Her work traverses personal essays, media criticism, and lyric nonfiction, attending to the quiet intersections of landscape, culture, and memory. Raised in the Virginia Piedmont, she writes with particular interest in how place shapes perception—how our interior and exterior environments inform the stories we tell about ourselves and the world we inhabit.

Her writing blends close observation with cultural inquiry, drawing on natural history, art, film, and everyday life to examine larger questions of meaning and belonging. When she is not working, she can often be found walking wooded paths, accompanied by a golden retriever, or tending her vegetable garden.