Author & Poet Bunny Goodjohn

B.A. Goodjohn’s first novel, Sticklebacks and Snow Globes (Permanent Press) made the Kirkus Best of 2007 list. Her second novel, The Beginning Things (Underground Voices) is due for publication in November 2015. Her collection, Bone Song, won the 2014 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry and will be published through Briery Creek Press (Longwood University) in April 2015. The UK born author teaches English at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia and is the Director of the Writing Program and Tutoring Services.

She has also published poetry and fiction in various literary journals including The Texas Review, Zone 3 and Connecticut Review.Lynchburg, Virginia - Poet and author Bunny Goodjohn will debut her first book of poetry, Bone Song, June 18 at 7:00PM in the Lynchburg YWCA for an event titled “BONE SONG: A blind date” which will be an evening of readings, conversation and light refreshments.

Sarah Kennedy, author of The Golden Thread, writes, "Bunny Goodjohn’s poems, as her title suggests, cut right to the bone.  Singing of pain and sickness, of everyday cruelty and lost love, she traces the scars of childhood along an adult’s memories..."

Goodjohn’s first novel, Sticklebacks and Snow Globes, centers on a group of working-class girls growing up in the UK during the 70s. Published in 2007 it had brisk sales and readers who wanted more. Goodjohn complied and The Beginning Things, with most of the same characters, will be published in October 2015.

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