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This interview with Kayann Short focuses on the BoulderReads Reading Buddies program that she and Diana Sherry developed and that Dr. Short subsequently ran for 16 years. The program paired Dr. Short’s University of Colorado undergraduate students with preschool-aged- through middle-school-aged students. The pairs of students met regularly and read to each other, an activity that strengthened the younger students’ reading skills, cultivated their interest in reading, and forged supportive relationships between the “little buddies” and the “big buddies.” In addition to delving into many aspects of the Reading Buddies program, the interview also explores other projects in which Dr. Short has been involved, including teaching writing and women’s studies at CU; digital storytelling workshops, which included teaching through Denver’s StoryCenter and developing the Writing Beyond Limits program that she taught to BoulderReads adult participants; writing and publishing her book A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography; a book she currently is researching about the Bluebird Club women’s community in Boulder County dating back to 1911; the Friedman Feminist Press Collection, which she established at CSU; her farm, Stonebridge Farm, which was the first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm in Boulder County; and heading up a writing group and writing workshops at the Lyons Library.