Courtney Lowery Cowgill is a teacher with a knack for online instruction and course design (University of Montana School of Journalism), a nonfiction writer with an eye on rural America, a poet with a facination with the metaphors that the natural world gives us to understand ourselves, an entrepreneur with a strategic mind for marketing and storytelling and an editor and writing coach with a detailed, thoughtful approach to copy editing and story development.

Courtney is currently working on a memoir in essays about land, loss, longing and our innate search for where we belong.

Courtney has combined teaching, designing, writing, editing and growing food into what you might call a “portfolio” career.

As a educator, Courtney is an adjuct professor at the University of Montana School of Journalism, specializing in feature writing, personal essay, legislative coverage (overseeing the Legislative News Service), rural journalism and online journalism. Before she made the leap back to rural Montana in 2009 to start a farm with her husband and children, she co-founded and was the editor in chief of the since-sold regional online magazine New West. Previously, she worked as a newswoman for the Associated Press and covered the Montana Legislature for Lee Newspapers. She also interned with the Great Falls Tribune and the Chronicle of Higher Education. When she’s not writing or editing or designing courses or grading papers, she’s helping her husband run and manage their on-farm sourdough bakery, Blue Truck Bread.

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