Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the story collection Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (W.W. Norton) and the bestselling novel Once Upon a River. She was a National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for her collection of stories, American Salvage, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow.
Fiction
Summer 2008
Boar Taint
The boar hog was advertised on a card at the grocery store for only twenty-five dollars, but the Jentzen farm was going to be a long, slow drive, farther down […]
Fall 2015
My Sister is in Pain
Unbearable pain when she gets up in the morning to go to work, when she goes to bed at night, and when she sleeps, she sleeps in pain and wakes […]
Fall 2009
Tell Yourself
Do not hate all men just because your daughter has come out of her bedroom wearing low-cut jeans that ride so low her pubic hair would be showing, if she […]
Bonnie Jo Campbell
A Conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell Bonnie Jo Campbell lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Before becoming a writer, she held a variety of jobs, which included traveling with the Ringling Bros. […]