Margot Hover, D.Min. ACPE/NACC Supervisor Emerita spent her pre-retirement career first as high school English and drama teacher, then as teaching chaplain at Dallas Parkland Hospital, Duke University, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and finally, working with pastors throughout rural Illinois and Missouri. For her debut book on Bamboo Dart Press, Four and Twenty Blackbirds she has put together a collection of word portraits of the people, places, and events populating the author’s universe. These essays are sometimes feisty, sometimes funny, always tender, and recognizable as deeply human. The book is available for preorder here and is out on April 1. Check out the short for the book below