Josina Guess

Josina Guess is the managing editor and a writer for the Bitter Southerner and enrolled in the narrative nonfiction MFA program at the University of Georgia Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her work has appeared in journals including Fourth Genre, About Place, and Sojourners. She worked on this essay at a workshop with the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Nonfiction – Issue 30

•Purple Kingsessing

The name on the seed packet—purple Kingsessing—was familiar, like an old family name.