Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the new memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA (Counterpoint), winner of a 2011 Minnesota Book Award. Online, you can see Bonnie interviewed on KOMO TV news, listen to Bonnie’s interview with Liane Hansen on NPR’s Weekend Edition, read a feature about the author and Carrier from The Daily News, hear a CARRIER interview with KMSU’s Weekly Reader, and read a brief interview with the author from Seattle Met magazine. More links to press coverage can be found under Book and Reviews.

Bonnie’s writing has appeared in several anthologies, including Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press), The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 1 (W.W. Norton), and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin). Her essays have also appeared in many magazines, literary journals, and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Sun, Huffington Post, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, and Brevity.

Bonnie holds an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is an honored visiting artist on the faculty of the Ashland University MFA program. Previously, she taught at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she became the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship, a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.

She has traveled extensively and calls three cities home: Minneapolis, and Amsterdam, and Seattle, where she currently resides. On her blog, The Blue Suitcase, she writes about the life and adventures of an airline family.