Sneak Peek: Bonnie Jo Campbell Podcast

Bonnie Jo Campbell: I do set my stories in Southwest Michigan or someplace in Michigan most of the time, and that's just because it's the place I know the best, and I think I can write most authentically about it. And because I'm so involved in connecting people to their landscape, writing about a landscape I know so well really works. The truths of the human heart exist everywhere. You can find them in any place, so I think it's wise for a writer like me to locate the action in a place where I know every plant, I know every tree, I know every bird that's making a noise, I know what frogs are out, and it really helps me, and I do believe that people-- at least in my fiction, I completely believe that people are who they are because of the landscape in which they're embedded.