Author of the monograph "Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America" (UMass Press, 2010), she has also published essays on popular fiction, film, and other subjects in such journals as "Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature", "The Southern Literary Journal", and "Appalachian Journal". Her current research project investigates the relationship between reading and middle-class identity at mid-century. Creadick grew up in Boone, NC, but drifted north for graduate school, and now finds herself teaching about Appalachia and the South at a small liberal arts college in western New York state.