Bonnie Bolling lives in Long Beach with her family. She is a student of the creative writing program at Long Beach City College, where she enjoys status as an office regular. One of her poems was a finalist for the 2007 Rita Dove Poetry Award, and she was a recipient of two Donald Drury Awards. Her work has been published in Pearl Magazine, Chickasaw Plum, Verdad, Poetic Diversity, Apple Valley Review, Rattle and other magazines and newspapers. Her current projects are a novel entitled The Book of Ruth, and a collection of poetry. When she isn’t writing poems or re-writing her novel, she enjoys conversations with her sons, sipping wine and window shopping with her sisters.
