(Marquette, Michigan) – Bonnie Jo Campbell, award-winning author and one of today’s most compelling voices in fiction, will present a reading and author talk on Wednesday, August 7 at 7:00 pm in the Peter White Public Library community room.
Campbell is the author of the novel Once Upon a River (July 2011, W.W. Norton) and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. She was a 2009 National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for her collection of stories, American Salvage, which won the Foreword Book of the Year award for short fiction. Campbell is also author of the novel Q Road and the story collection Women & Other Animals. She’s received the AWP Award for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and the Eudora Welty Prize. Her poetry collection Love Letters to Sons of Bitches won the 2009 CBA Letterpress Chapbook award.
Bonnie Jo Campbell grew up on a small Michigan farm with her mother and four siblings in a house her grandfather built. After studying philosophy at the University of Chicago, she hitchhiked across the U.S. and Canada, scaled the Swiss alps on her bicycle, and traveled with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She also organizes and leads adventure tours in Russia and the Baltics.
Campbell received her M.A. in mathematics and her M.F.A. in writing from Western Michigan University. She lives with her husband and other animals outside Kalamazoo, and she teaches writing in the low residency program at Pacific University.
A book sale and signing opportunity follows the presentation which is open to the public at no admission charge. For more information call the library at 226-4318 or visit www.pwpl.info.
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