Craig Havighurst - Bio
Craig Havighurst is an independent journalist and producer in Nashville who has won awards for his work in print, radio and television. He is a regular contributor for WPLN in Nashville and National Public Radio. He is the author of "Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City," which was published in the fall of 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. And his company, String Theory Media, specializes in music documentaries.
Between 2000 and 2004, Havighurst was a staff writer covering music and the music business for The Tennessean. For his feature writing there, he was the recipient of the 2004 Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism. As a freelance writer, Havighurst has contributed to The Oxford American, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Country Music Magazine, and No Depression. He was the lead writer and researcher on "Hairdos and Heartache: The Women of Country Music," which aired on the A&E Network in the spring of 2006, and his short documentary on the history of WSM radio for Nashville Public Television won a regional Emmy Award.
Havighurst’s background as a writer, reporter, and editor dates back to 1990, when he began his career writing about politics and culture for Durham, North Carolina’s award-winning weekly The Independent and the Duke University daily, The Chronicle. After receiving a master’s degree from Duke, he wrote and edited several health care trade publications in Washington D.C. Havighurst’s freelance health writing appeared in a variety of publications, including American Medical News and Healthcare Business.
Havighurst has a master’s degree in public policy from the Terry Sanford Institute at Duke University and a B.A. in English from Northwestern University. Havighurst is a graduate of Leadership Music in Nashville and a member of the International Bluegrass Music Association, the Americana Music Association and the Recording Academy. He lives with wife Taylor Holliday, a freelance arts and lifestyle journalist.
