Buckley, B J
1953-
PO Box 865, Lolo, MT 59847
bjbuckley@earthlink.net
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Laramie County
Biographical and Professional Information
Poet and writer B.J. Buckley is a native Wyomingite now living and writing in Montana. She has worked in Arts in Schools Programs throughout the Rocky Mountain West for over 30 years. Her awards include a Wyoming Literature Fellowship; the NY based Poets & Writers Exchange Award in Poetry; the Joy Harjo Prize from CutThroat: A Magazine of Literature and the Arts; the Rita Dove Poetry Award from the Center for Women Writers at Salem College, Winston-Salem, SC; and the Robert Penn Warren Narrative Poetry Prize from The Cumberland Poetry Review. Her work has appeared widely in little magazines such as Green Mountains Review, Comstock Review, and Big Sky Journal, as well as in the anthologies Leaning Into The Wind, Woven On The Wind, and Crazy Woman Creek, edited by Nancy Curtis, Gaydell Collier, and [Linda M. Hasselstrom]; and A Bird In The Hand: Fiction and Poetry About Birds, edited by Kent Nelson. Her first book of poems, Artifacts, was published by Willow Bee, Saratoga, Wyoming. Her most recent book, with fellow Wyoming poet Dawn Senior-Trask, is Moonhorses And The Red Bull, from Pronghorn Press in Greybull Wyoming.
Genres
Poetry
Titles
- Artifacts: Poems (1987). Saratoga, WY: Willow Bee Pub. ISBN: 093963502X.
- Moon Horses and the Red Bull (2005). Greybull, WY: Prong Horn Press
Speaking Engagements
Accepts speaking engagements.
Contact:bjbuckley@earthlink.net
Upcoming appearances
Wyoming Book Festival Sept. 14-15, 2007, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
John R. Milton Conference, Vermillion, ND, Oct28-31, 2009