Roanoke-based 'Dopesick' author Beth Macy to run for Congress

Author and former journalist Beth Macy enters race for Virginia’s 6th Congressional District

The list of Democratic candidates seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Ben Cline has grown to three, with the addition of former journalist and renowned author Beth Macy to the field.  Macy joins Pete Barlow, a former official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Ken Mitchell, who ran against Cline in 2024, in what is shaping up to be a primary election to challenge Cline, of Botetourt County.  Th…

She wrote “Dopesick." Now she’s running for Congress

Today, The Roanoke Times broke a story: Beth Macy, an acclaimed journalist and the author of Dopesick, is running for Congress.As it happens, we were talking to her…today! Macy has written a brand-new memoir, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America, an account of her attempts to bridge the growing divide in America and reconnect with estranged friends, family, and neighbors in her hometown of Urbana, Ohio, transformed sinc…

Roanoke-based 'Dopesick' author Beth Macy to run for Congress

Beth Macy, a Democrat and the Roanoke-based author of "Dopesick," intends to run for Republican Ben Cline's seat in Congress next year.