Bauer Writes Essay for Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore

Dr. Margaret Bauer recently published an essay, “Purple Birds” in Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore.

Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore is an online anthology of nonfiction works about beliefs, myths, and narratives in Southern culture over the last fifty years, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The project, created in 2020 by writer-editor Foster Dickson, collects personal essays, memoirs, short articles, opinion pieces, and contemplative works about the ideas, experiences, and assumptions that have shaped life below the old Mason-Dixon Line since 1970.