Bonnie Jean (B .J.) Gregg has lived all her life in the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by the forests and snow-capped peaks of the Cascade mountains. She has traveled throughout the United States, P...view moreBonnie Jean (B .J.) Gregg has lived all her life in the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by the forests and snow-capped peaks of the Cascade mountains. She has traveled throughout the United States, Pacific Islands, and Europe, but reveals she has also been a traveler of the mind where border crossings are not required. These travels are reflected in her first novel “Pollen on the Wind”, an adventure across time and space.
Bonnie attended Lewis & Clark College where she was a student of Oregon Poet Laureate, William Stafford. She regards him as a master of the creative writing art, but makes no such claims for herself.
“I am simply a story teller”, she explains. “One of Emily Dickinson’s “nobodies”. She has written a personal memoir “Shooting the Rapids”, a philosophical treatise “Keeping on Compass”, and several works of poetry, but is not generally known.
A widow Bonnie lives alone in Portland, Oregon. She is the mother of two sons, and grandmother to two granddaughters. She was employed by the Portland School District for 21 years and has spent her retirement years active in her community.view less