Aurora Bonner is a placed-based writer and teacher. Her work has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Under the Gum Tree, HerStry, Impost: A Journal of Creative & Critical Work, the Colorado Review, Brevity, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and elsewhere.

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Her essays are included in two anthologies: Rivers, Ridges, and Valleys: Essays on Rural Pennsylvania, published by Catamount Press, and DINE, published by Hippocampus Magazine & Books. She is a regular book reviewer for the Colorado Review and Hippocampus Magazine. Aurora received her MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University.

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Aurora teaches writing at McDaniel College, speaks regularly on writing, offers writing and wellness workshops and retreats, and runs virtual

writing accountability groups, writing challenges, and book clubs through her Substack Root Down to Write Up.

 

 

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