Bounty includes the many friends I’ve made over thirty years here in Santa Fe. Some of them gathered in the garden Monday to greet each other for the first time in almost two years. I’d asked everyone to wear marks and can only blame myself for being the first to take mine off. But we are all vaccinated and we were outside although human beings can’t really social distance when they are so glad to see each other and have so much to say…
Bounty

A long and fruitful career as a writer began in 1960 with the publication of Sallie Bingham's novel, After Such Knowledge. This was followed by 15 collections of short stories in addition to novels, memoirs and plays, as well as the 2020 biography The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke.
Her latest book, Taken by the Shawnee, is a work of historical fiction published by Turtle Point Press in June of 2024. Her previous memoir, Little Brother, was published by Sarabande Books in 2022. Her short story, "What I Learned From Fat Annie" won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize in 2023 and the story "How Daddy Lost His Ear," from her forthcoming short story collection Cowboy Tales, received second prize in the 2023 Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition.
She is an active and involved feminist, working for women’s empowerment, who founded the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which gives grants to Kentucky artists and writers who are feminists, The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, and the Women’s Project and Productions in New York City. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sallie's complete biography is available here.
Sallie, I love your blog posts and your beautiful, descriptive language. As someone who also blogs and sends newsletters to my subscribers, I recognize your vast abilities to communicate and touch hearts. I would love to have more interaction.
I had hoped to be in Sarasota by now, but Covid and the unexpected move of my oldest daughter back to Louisville has postponed that for another year or too. Seeing how active and vibrant you are, gives me hope and encouragement!
A beautiful blessing bestowed on us all.
And those tomato’s are rich with garden, rain, and sunshine!
The story and all reminds me of my Dear Nina’s fruit and vegetable garden always by seed with a back hedge of Lilacs so tall and fragrant every spring in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
My evening has been brightened. I feel as if I was with all your friends in your garden.
Thank you and your son.
William Stout Johnson