Bonnie J Rough

Bonnie J. Rough is the author of the new memoir Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA (Counterpoint). Her official author website is www.bonniejrough.com. Her writing has appeared in several anthologies, including Modern Love, The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Her essays have appeared in many periodicals, including The New York Times, The Sun, and The Iowa Review.

Bonnie holds an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She has 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: Seattle, Minneapolis, and Amsterdam, where she currently lives with her family. There, she serves as a fiction editor for the international literary journal Versal.