Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell (born c. 1962 Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American novelist, and short story writer.
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[edit] Biography
Campbell attended Comstock High School (from which she graduated in 1980), and received an B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1984. From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative writing in 1998. She has traveled with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and has organized adventure bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and Russia.
She was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in fiction for her short-story collection American Salvage,[1] which the Kansas City Star also named a Top Six Book of 2009.[2] American Salvage, was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.[3] She has won a Pushcart Prize for her story “The Smallest Man in the World,”[4] the 1998 Associated Writing Programs Award for short fiction (for Women & Other Animals), and the 2009 Eudora Welty Prize from Southern Review for “The Inventor, 1972.”
Her stories and essays have also appeared in Ontario Review, Story, The Kenyon Review, Witness, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, and Utne Reader. In 1999, her story “Shifting Gears” was the official story of the Detroit Automobile Dealers' Association Show.
Campbell lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, Christopher Magson, and she teaches fiction at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, in the low-residency MFA program.[5]
[edit] Works
[edit] Short story collections
- Women & Other Animals. University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. ISBN 9781558492196. http://books.google.com/books?id=J1S4EhS3rp0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=bonnie+jo+campbell&hl=en&ei=xxvMTaaINcTEgQeg6Zj3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false.; Simon & Schuster, 2002, ISBN 9780743203074
- American Salvage. Wayne State University Press. 2009. ISBN 9780814334126. http://books.google.com/books?id=NS3VzsaK8dgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bonnie+jo+campbell&hl=en&ei=xxvMTaaINcTEgQeg6Zj3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.; W. W. Norton, 2009, ISBN 9780393339192
[edit] Novel
- Q Road. Scribner. 2003. ISBN 9780743203661. http://books.google.com/books?id=zLE1oZBUG8YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bonnie+jo+campbell&hl=en&ei=xxvMTaaINcTEgQeg6Zj3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Once Upon a River, July, 2011, ISBN 9780393079890
[edit] Anthologies
- Jason Lee Brown, Jay Prefontaine, ed. (2011). "Tell Yourself". New Stories from the Midwest. Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780804011358. http://books.google.com/books?id=oDVDqgejYzwC&pg=PA109&dq=bonnie+jo+campbell&hl=en&ei=xxvMTaaINcTEgQeg6Zj3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=bonnie%20jo%20campbell&f=false.
- Bark Editors, ed. (2007). "Doggy Love". Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit. Random House Digital, Inc.. ISBN 9780307338389. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zdy-Me18sc8C&pg=PT130&dq=bonnie+jo+campbell&hl=en&ei=xxvMTaaINcTEgQeg6Zj3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=bonnie%20jo%20campbell&f=false.
- Becky Bradway, ed. (2003). "Railroad Crossings". In the middle of the Middle West: literary nonfiction from the heartland. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253216571. http://books.google.com/books?id=yuq2ZNXLvAIC&pg=PA81&dq=bonnie+jo+campbell&hl=en&ei=xxvMTaaINcTEgQeg6Zj3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=bonnie%20jo%20campbell&f=false.
[edit] Reviews
[edit] Interviews
- Interview with Kenyon Review
- Interview with Dan Wickett, EWN
- Interview with Monica Friedman
- Interview with Andrew’s Book Club
- Wisconsin Book Festival 2009 Interview
- Author Bonnie Jo Campbell on fizzy water, donkeys
