Bonnie Proudfoot's fiction, poetry, reviews, and essays have appeared in anthologies and journals, and her work has been twice nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart. Her novel Goshen Road (OU/ Swallow) received the WCONA Book of the Year and was long-listed for the PEN/ Hemingway. Poetry books include Household Gods, a chapbook, on Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, and Incomer, released in 2026 on Shadelandhouse Modern Press. Bonnie moved to the Appalachian region in 1979 and resides in Athens, Ohio.