Deal News – Kayann Short’s THE BLUE BIRDS GO WEST: How New Women of Chicago Found Health, Freedom and Community in the Colorado Rockies
Award-winning author and educator Kayann Short’s THE BLUE BIRDS GO WEST: How New Women of Chicago Found Health, Freedom and Community in the Colorado Rockies, a collective biography of the educated, financially independent members of a women’s organization who vacationed in the Rockies in the early 1900s, crossing paths with luminaries like Jane Addams and Georgia O’Keeffe while creating an influential community based on cooperative living, lifelong friendships, intimate partnerships, property investment, and engagement with the natural world, to Haley Lynch at Beacon Press, for publication in Spring 2027, by Eva Oakes at Transatlantic Agency (world).
Kayann Short, Ph.D., is the author of essays and short stories about women in the U.S. West. She received the Downing Excellence in Journalism award for her article about the Blue Bird Club in The Colorado Magazine and the Nautilus “Better Books for a Better World” award for her memoir, A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography (Torrey House Press). Her writing appears in The Hopper, Panorama, Necessary Fiction, and Mud Season Review, among others, and many anthologies, including Dirt: A Love Story and Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Non-Fiction.
She is the founder of the Friedman Feminist Press Collection, a second-wave feminist archive at Colorado State University, and has facilitated writing workshops for the Thoreau Society, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Jaipur Literature Festival. Following an award-winning career at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Short co-owns Stonebridge Farm with her partner John Martin and organizes community writing events on Colorado’s Front Range. See more about her work at kayannshort.com.
Kayann Short is represented by Eva Oakes.
Congratulations, Kayann!