The Former St. Christopher

Michael Bonacci received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College. Besides writing poetry, he enjoys adapting historical documents for the stage and has had several play produced in New York, Minneapolis, and Seattle. He is a former Anglican priest, and also lived and studied at a Benedictine monastery and Buddhist Zendo. After managing several nonprofit organizations in the Midwest and Seattle, he moved to the Skagit Valley in northern Washington, and now lives with his husband, David Bricka, and the most amazing dog in the world, Buddy, in the "backyard" of Little Mountain.

His poems "Cathy, Midsommer" and "Tall Skinny Day" were recently part of a Poetry in Nature installation project sponsored by the City of Mount Vernon and Skagit Regional Health. They appeared on Little Mountain hiking trails (www.littlemountainpark.org) during the month of May. The poetry signs now reside for the summer on trails at North Cascades Institute (www.ncascades.org).