Kayann Short
Writer, farmer, and teacher Kayann Short, PhD, is the author of A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography (Torrey House Press), a Nautilus Green Living & Sustainability winner. She is the founder of the Friedman Feminist Press Collection at Colorado State University and co-produced the DVD series, The History of Women’s Achievement in America. As an award-winning teacher of writing and women’s studies at CU-Boulder, she directed digital storytelling projects with community elders, literacy students, and non-profit organizations. Her work has appeared in Midwest Review, Hawk & Handsaw, The Hopper, Burningword, Pilgrimage, and Dash, among others, and the anthologies, Dirt: A Love Story and Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Non-Fiction. Dr. Short organizes community writing events and hosts writer’s workshops and retreats in a renovated granary at Stonebridge Farm, her organic community-supported farm on Colorado’s Front Range. Learn more about Dr. Short at kayannshort.com.
![Photo of author Kayann Short. She is standing outdoors, green trees in the distance behind her. She has long, straight brown hair, and wears large silver hoop earrings and a white dress button-up blouse--the sleeves are rolled up to 3/4 length. Her hands are crossed in front of her chest as she holds onto a small hardcover book with a green cover, called "Up in Maine."](/sites/default/files/styles/square_540x540/public/media/images/2021/Kayann%20Short%2094.jpg?h=e4b200a2&itok=s31vDbc5)