Personal essay: Passion of the Fruit

The Kentucky Foundation for Women awarded me with two grants—2020 and 2022—to explore food, farming and the outdoors from a feminist perspective. The project has turned out to be a collection of nature-based essays, including this one about passion fruits and their presence on my farm in Kentucky as a portal to my time in Puerto Rico.

I am relatively new to creative nonfiction, and all of my work has been enlivened by this exploration of the world around me through a more personal lens.