Bobbi BuchananBobbi Buchanan is the is co-author of Higher Love: The Miraculous Story of a Family and author of Listen: Essays on Living the Good Life, published by Ginkgo Leaf Press in September 2013, and founding editor of New Southerner, an e-zine that focuses n self-sufficiency, environmental stewardship, and local economies. She received the 2007 Emerging Writers Award in Nonfiction from the Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College. And the 2010 prize in nonfiction from Still: The Journal for her essay "In the Woods," which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and poems have been published in The New York Times, Brain, Child Magazine, Sojourners, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, The Louisville Review, The James Dickey Review, Kudzu, The Pikeville Review, the Motif anthologies Come What May (MotesBooks, 2010) and All the Livelong Day (MotesBooks, 2011), Greenprints, Literary Mama, and Flycatcher, among other publications. She teaches academic writing part time at Bellarmine University. A member of the advisory board for the Green River Writers, Bobbi is co-founder of the Homegrown Art, Music & Spoken Word Show, an open-mic and arts exhibition series held bimonthly in Shepherdsville, Ky., and presented in partnership with Color Your City, a substance abuse prevention and recovery charity working to provide local residents the tools they need to create art and outlets for sharing their work. Bobbi teaches creative writing at the Bullitt County Detention Center as part of Color Your City's Art for Inmates in Recovery Program, which focus on using the arts as a means of rehabilitating substance-abuse offenders-to educate them on the power of art as a mechanism for healing and stress reduction. Bobbi earned a bachelor's in journalism at the University of Kentucky and an MFA in writing at Spalding University. She lives in Cox's Creek, KY. Read More Read Less