B.J. BUCKLEY

B.J. Buckley is a poet and writer with over 25 years of experience in Artists In Schools programs throughout the Rocky Mountain West, the Dakotas and Alaska. Her residencies emphasize the process of writing as a way of discovering both the external world and the internal landscape of the mind and heart. She encourages teachers to be active partners in all residency activities. Incorporating other art forms such as bookmaking, origami, painting and oral performance into her residencies, Buckley makes an effort to introduce her students to the best work of writers in their region and in other cultures. She has extensive experience working with senior citizens, Native American students, children whose first language is not English and students with special needs. Buckley was the 1999 poetry winner of the Annual Writers Exchange, sponsored by Poets & Writers, New York, won the Rita Dove Poetry Prize in 2003 and the Joy Harjo Poetry Award in 2005. She was selected to receive a fellowship grant for a writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2004. Her most recent work has appeared in CutThroat, A Journal of the Arts; Comstock Review; Owen Wister Review, and in Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poems about Birds.

Grade levels: Pre-K-12
B.J. Buckley 
10 10th Lane NE
Power, MT 50468
phone: 406-467-2986
email: bjbuckley@earthlink.net

Back to list of Artists