Bridget Bufford grew up in St. Louis and lives now in mid-Missouri where she leads creative writing workshops using the Amherst Writers & Artists Method. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions, Romance for LIFE, Pillow Talk II, Body Check, and Writing Alone & With Others. Her novel Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award. Cemetery Bird is her second book.