Do you think you
could beat me up?
Reader's Guide
and Publicity Kit
Welcome to the heart of the jungle! You have arrived safely at the lush and humid website of Bonnie Jo Campbell, a girl raised by wolves, then kidnapped by a band of lowland gorillas.
Please feel free to snack on bugs, grubs, and tree bark as you follow her
trail, and for crying out loud watch out for those pesky flying monkeys.
When she puts down her machete and blow gun, Bonnie Jo edits a personal
newsletter and works on her future novels.
Special thanks to McDonald Wildlife Photography, Inc. for use of the fabulous gorilla photo by Joe McDonald.
Please contact the webmaster if you experience any problems with this site, have suggestions or feedback. Thanks!
Site updated: 15 April 2009
More recently she is author of the novel Q Road, 
now in paperback, and the award-winning short story collection Women and Other Animals, both of which have been translated into German by Schneekluth. And Bonnie's second short story collection, American Salvage, has just been released by Wayne State University Press. Please join her for a book release party in Detroit on Thursday, May 14, at the Historic Charles T. Fisher Residence, 670
West Boston Blvd (click here for more details) and in Kalamazoo on Sunday, May 24, from 2-8 pm, at Bell’s Brewery. For additional schedule information, visit http://www.americansalvagestories.blogspot.com/. Also in 2009: Kim Addonizio has just chosen Bonnie’s poetry manuscript, Love Letters from Sons of Bitches, as the winner of the Center for Book Arts Chapbook award. A very limited run of the chapbook will be published in the fall.
She co-edited a collection Our Working Lives: Short
Stories of People and Work. You can see some descriptions and reviews of
her books, and maybe even some samples of her writing on this site.
Keep trekking and you'll encounter Bonnie Jo herself perched on a rock bragging
shamelessly about her personal attributes and accomplishments and also
offering some of her favorite photos. For a schedule of upcoming readings,
workshops and ritual sacrifices, please contact Bonnie Jo via e-mail or visit her blog at http://bone-eye.blogspot.com/ and her Screen
Porch Literary Adventures Blog at http://screenporchlit.blogspot.com/. You can also find her and her fan page on Facebook.
Copyright 2001, Bonnie Jo Campbell