Bonnie Jo Campbell.

We are delighted to announce that acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Bonnie Jo Campbell will be joining us at this year’s festival. A “master of rural noir,” she has enjoyed a career garlanded with awards and accolades, and we cannot wait to welcome her to Columbia!

Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of the novels Once Upon a River, a National Bestseller, and Q Road. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collections include American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP prize for short fiction; and Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. Her story “The Smallest Man in the World” was awarded a Pushcart Prize and her story “The Inventor, 1972″ was awarded the 2009 Eudora Welty Prize from Southern Review. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Her new novel, The Waters, will be published in January. She lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, with donkeys.