Ron Balthazor retired from his position as a senior academic professional at the University of Georgia in 2020. He taught composition and Environmental Literature and was a developer of the Emma project, a web application for writing.  His primary area of research was Henry David Thoreau, and he presented his work at the Thoreau Annual Gathering in Concord, Massachusetts.  He has a M.Div. from Emory and continues to seek God in God’s greener forms; he leads Sunday school and is the grave digger at St. Gregory the Great Episcopal Church in Athens, Georgia.

His scholarly work has appeared in Portal, The Journal of General Education, Readerly/Writerly Texts, Kairos, Literary and Linguistic Computing, and ATQ.  He helped develop and served as the first Director of the Sustainability Certificate at UGA.

Mostly though, Ron is a gardener and a lover of all that grows on the farm, including the honey bees, chickens, worms, the barn cats, and the Great Pyrenees guardian dogs.  He is never happier than when he is with his wife Jane planting, weeding, and mulching on their 10 acres in the Georgia Piedmont.