Buzzy Jackson is the award-winning author of three nonfiction books and the novel TO DIE BEAUTIFUL (North America)/THE GIRL WITH THE RED HAIR (UK/worldwide).

Buzzy grew up in an extended family of readers and writers in Truckee, California and Missoula, Montana and now lives in Colorado. She is the proud mother of a son with great literary taste and the grateful daughter of the “de facto Mayor of Truckee,” Ruth J. Hall, and beloved cult mystery writer Jon A. Jackson.

Buzzy has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and learned to DJ at UCLA. She is an ordained wedding officiant with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, hosts a monthly Resistance dance party, and is a voting member of the National Book Critics’ Circle. Buzzy teaches writing through Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop and online, and also works with writers one-on-one.

She is currently researching and writing a new historical novel set in Elizabethan England, about how medieval witch trials led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade (Dutton: 2027).

Buzzy’s favorite quote about writing is from the poet Muriel Rukeyser:

The universe is made of stories,

not of atoms.

– Muriel Rukeyser, “The Speed of Darkness”