Beth Bonness
Beth Bonness writes poetry in the early mornings before she wakes up too much. She grew up in Wisconsin, but moved to the Northwest with her Computer Science degree and her husband. They raised their three daughters in Portland, Oregon. She fell in love with the beach and enjoyed climbing Mt. Hood, once. After thirty years working in product development and marketing, and one too many acquisitions, she left high-tech corporate culture to write. She’s working on a memoir, A House Falls from the Sky, about saving a 100-year-old mansion with her husband. Follow the journey as the book unfolds at ahousefallsfromthesky.com.
What is your creative process? Are you a night owl or an early bird?
My most creative writing time is first thing in the morning during coffee sanctuary. I journal, document dreams, write scenes or poetry. Sometimes I ease into writing for the day by rereading the last page of the previous day’s work or a scene I identified the day before knowing what comes next. I keep a writing journal.
What are you reading right now?
Liars Club by Mary Karr
What are some of your favorite books of all time?
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
On Writing by Stephen King
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edger Allan Poe
Poetry by e e cummings and Emily Dickinson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle