Jewly Hight

Jewly Hight is the Editorial Director of the Nashville-based NPR Music radio station WNXP as well a music journalist and critic. She is an NPR/NPR Music contributor and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, NYMag.com/Vulture, Slate, Billboard, The Oxford American, MTV.com and numerous other outlets. She won the inaugural Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism in 2015 and is the author of Right by Her Roots: Americana Women and Their Songs. She is based in Nashville.