Bridget Bufford designs edible landscapes for the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and leads creative writing workshops using the Amherst Writers & Artists Method. She has worked in the field of developmental disability in public schools, institutions, homes, and a therapeutic horseback riding center, thereby concluding that people are interesting, but plants are less stressful. Cemetery Bird, a Pushcart Prize nominee, is the story of a US Forest Service Hotshot who gets injured in service and subsequently becomes a caretaker for her nephew, a minimally verbal teen with autism. Her novel Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.Short works have appeared in The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions, Romance for LIFE, Pillow Talk II, Body Check, and Writing Alone & With Others.