Nancy Hayes Kilgore is the winner of the 2016 Vermont Writers Prize. She is the author of two novels, Wild Mountain (Green Writers Press, 2017) and Sea Level, a 2011 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year. Nancy has published in the anthology Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s and 70s, in literary journals, as a Vermont Public Radio Commentator, and online at Grandparents.com. Formerly a parish pastor (Presbyterian and Congregational,) Nancy is a pastoral counselor(psychotherapist) and leads workshops on writing and spirituality.