Beth Shalom Feagan wrote a memoir of her childhood as her MA thesis at Longwood University and a YA mystery as her MFA thesis in Children's Literature at Hollins University. She has taught at Longwood University and currently teaches writing in the General Studies program at Berea College. An active member of MLA, ChLA, ICFA, and the Southern Humanities Council, she has presented at each of these organizations' conferences. She served as CNF co-editor of HeartWood literary magazine for six years: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/. This is her eighth year serving as a writing coach at the Mountain Workshops Project: https://mountainworkshops.org/coaches_2024 She is working on writing poetry as a way of noticing, meditating, and breathing. Also, she’s wrangling a 600-page messy manuscript about her friendship with bell hooks into a memoir. Her NaNoWriMo handle is @BethShalom, and she’s always looking for writing buddies.