Welcome to the Home of the Millionaires
In the next feature release of Burnaway's co-publishing initiative with Oxford American, Sarah Mullens—the ex-mayor of Bramwell, West Virginia—recalls an almost-forgotten era.
Sarah Mullens is a Hammond-Schwartz Fellow at Colorado State University and associate editor at Colorado Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. In 2025, she won the Mayday Creative Nonfiction Prize from New American Press. A sixth-generation West Virginian, she splits her time between Putnam County and Colorado’s Front Range.