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After the death of her mother, Jennifer Palmer realized life was too short not to live on a farm.
Now 40, the adjunct art professor is on the cusp of completing the Wendell Berry Farming Program where she’ll receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in sustainable agriculture, and entering into a world of farming she knew little about just two years ago.
In the summer of 2018, “The Birds of Opulence” was included in Book Benches: A Tribute to Kentucky Authors. Mark Cornelison | UK Photo.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 6, 2021) University Press of Kentucky author Crystal Wilkinson s novel, The Birds of Opulence, has been selected by Kentucky Humanities for the 2021 Kentucky Reads.
The novel will be at the center of statewide conversations on the dynamics of family and community, the strength of women and stigmas surrounding mental illness. Kentucky Reads will offer 25 scholar-led discussions of “The Birds of Opulence” to community organizations throughout the Commonwealth.
“Mental illness continues to be one of our greatest societal ills and the stigma surrounding it is as concerning as the disease itself,” Wilkinson, an associate professor in the Department of English in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, explained. “It gives me great hope that communities all over the state will read the novel and use it as a cataly