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Bethany Bowman

 

A native of New York’s Mohawk Valley, Bethany Bowman currently lives in Indiana with her husband and two children and works in Taylor University’s art department. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Comstock Review, Art House America, Ascent, The Cresset, The Tishman Review, Rock & Sling, Apple Valley Review, The Other Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Lime Hawk, Windhover, Kentucky Review, and Relief Journal.

On your nightstand: 

Rachel Held Evans’ Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church is every bit as good as my friend Amy said it was. I also just finished Eleanor and Park. If you’re into Y/A, this one’s a gem.

If you could spend a day with an author, who would it be?  

Barbara Kingsolver. We’d take a long walk in the woods, hopefully see some birds/maybe a rat snake or a garter, and make a leisurely dinner together from locally-grown veggies. Sigh.

What book made the biggest impression on you as a kid?

I absolutely love the Emily books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. All the natural beauty of the Anne books, but with magic. They continue to inspire me.