Fred Bahnson is a writer, permaculture gardener, and the cofounder and former director of Anathoth Community Garden at Cedar Grove United Methodist Church. As a teacher, he focuses on the intersection of place and contemplative practice, exploring a contemplative ecology for the Anthropocene era. He currently directs the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.

Bahnson is the author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith and co-author of Making Peace With the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation. His essays have appeared in many anthologies and publications such as Harper’s, Orion, The Sun, and Washington Post.

He is the recipient of a W.K. Kellogg Food & Society Fellowship and an Artist Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council in creative nonfiction. He can be found on twitter @fredbahnson.