Jennifer McGaha is the author of three works of creative nonfiction including The Joy Document, a collection of fifty essays celebrating midlife, Flat Broke with Two Goats, a 2018 OverDrive Big Library Read, and Bushwhacking: How to Get Lost in the Woods and Write Your Way Out, a Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award finalist. Her nonfiction and creative nonfiction work has also appeared in many magazines and literary journals including Image, The Huffington Post, The New Pioneer, Lumina, PANK, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Brevity, Bitter Southerner, Crab Creek Review, River Teeth, and others. An experienced workshop facilitator and writing coach, Jennifer has led workshops through Hugo House, Flatiron Writers Room, the North Carolina Arboretum, Story and Song Center for Arts and Culture, the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site, Kanuga Conference Center, the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-Asheville, and many other places. She has also served as a featured reader, speaker, and moderator for literary events at public libraries, bookstores, writing programs, and other venues across the country. An Appalachian native, Jennifer lives in a wooded North Carolina hollow with her husband, two cats, four unruly dogs, nine relatively tame dairy goats, and an ever-changing number of chickend
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