Bonnie Johnson-Bartee is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, Bildungsroman 38 (2004) and Named, but Unknown (2006), and Cord Blood (Sandhills Press, 2023) which won the Nebraska Book Award, Poetry Honor Award. Bonnie is also the editor of Teachers College: Essays on the Art of Education (WSC Press, 2007). Her work can be found in Words Like Rain (WSC Press, 2005) and editions of Voices Out of Nowhere, Judas Goat and Nebraska Life. She teaches creative writing and literature courses at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska, and at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska, where she also serves as the director of the Visiting Writers Series and is the faculty editor of Northeast Community College’s annual student magazine, Voices Out of Nowhere. Bonnie grew up in northeast Nebraska, where she raised her children, and her children are now raising theirs. A grandmother to six, she appreciates the deep roots of her Nebraska home.