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Nancy Hayes Kilgore is the author of four novels, PENNSYLVANIA LOVE SONG (coming in 2025), BITTER MAGIC (Milford House, 2021,) WILD MOUNTAIN (Green Writers Press, 2017) and SEA LEVEL (RCWMS, 2011.) Awards include the Vermont Writers Prize, a Book of the Year through ForeWord Reviews, and a Pushcart Prize nomination.

Nancy Kilgore's background as an ordained minister and pastoral counselor underly her interests in spirituality and psychology, and, with her love of nature and poetry, coalesce in her fiction writing. She leads workshops and retreats integrating spirituality and creative writing.
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Rescue (an excerpt from Wild Mountain)

Mona held the door for the dairy truck driver, who was wheeling in a dolly filled with milk and cream, and then closed it against the rain. Leo, Heather, and Eli were huddled over the counter. Bodies at the hearth. People who belong to you, your friends, your customers. At the center of the tableau Heather’s pale hair lit up the scene, while her son Eli, with his adolescent sense of dignity, peere Read more of this blog post »

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