George Buelow

Born and raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi, George Buelow has received honorable mention for a creative nonfiction essay "Aunt Edie" at Winning Writers and for a flash fiction piece "The Top Floor" in Gemini Magazine, both in 2015. He will be releasing a political novel set in the 1960s Pacific Northwest, is working on a book of poetry, and has two well-received psychotherapy textbooks. He has done anthropological research in Alaska and Liberia, practiced psychotherapy, taught at the Universities of Oregon, South Carolina, and Southern Mississippi, and did a one year postdoc in philosophy at Cornell.

He writes in the areas of mental illness, animal protection, ethnographic fiction, and nonfiction. Favorite authors include Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Chinua Achebe, and Cormac McCarthy. He lives in south Mississippi with his wife and partner of over forty years, Sidne, and dancing rescued dog, Kelsey. They go on long distance camping trips and never tire of movies and reading aloud to one another.