Career
While her children were small, Bly worked on the farm when necessary and found time to manage the literary journals published by her husband and William Duffy, Fifties and Sixties, as well as managing their business, the Sixties and the Seventies Press.
At the beginning of the next decade, Bly was asked to write a monthly column, "A Letter from the Country" for the Minnesota Public Radio Magazine. Writing these short essays about rural life taught her how to think and to express herself well in a relatively small number of pages. The essays were later compiled into the book Letters From the Country, published in 1981. Three of her stories were also combined into the movie Rachel River, which starred Craig T. Nelson.
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