Fred Bahnson

Fred Bahnson is a permaculture gardener, a cofounder and former director of Anathoth Community Garden, coauthor of Making Peace With the Land, and the author of Soil and Sacrament. His essays have appeared in Oxford American, Image, The Sun, Christian Science Monitor, and Best American Spiritual Writing 2007. He is the recipient of a Kellogg Food & Community fellowship and a North Carolina Artist fellowship in Creative Nonfiction. He lives in western North Carolina and is the director of the Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.