Bonnie Jo Campbell (born September 14, 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer.
From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative writing in 1998.
She has traveled with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and has organized adventure bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and Russia.
[1] Campbell teaches fiction at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, in the low-residency MFA program.
In 2009, her manuscript "Love Letters to Sons of Bitches" won the Center for Book Arts' Poetry Chapbook Competition.