Buzzy Jackson is the author of The Inspirational Atheist: Wise Words on the Wonder and Meaning of Life (Penguin: 2015) as well as Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist (Simon & Schuster, 2010), A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them (W.W. Norton: 2005) and the novel Effie Perine. She has a Ph.D. in U.S. History from UC Berkeley and her work has been honored by PEN-West and the American Library Association. Buzzy is a Research Affiliate at The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Correspondent for the Boston Globe. She attended the Community of Writers in 1993, 1997 and 2001. ww.buzzyjackson.com