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The Wall, Jennifer C. Cormack
Light Of The World, Jennifer C. Cormack
Where Are You From: Essays On Finding Home, Georgia Knapp
Where Are You From: Essays On Finding Home, Georgia Knapp
Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses
"Where Are You From?" is an essay collection that seeks to answer the question of where someone is from. Their birthplace or the last place that they lived? The place where they have lived the longest, or the place that they identify with most with? The eleven essays in this collection engage these questions and others in an attempt to reconcile the author's deep-seated and pervasive sense of dislocation. In settings ranging from the Shetland Islands to Greece to Chicago, this collection explores what it means to call a place home––or not.
Juneau: Notes From The Bus, Cara Makuh
Juneau: Notes From The Bus, Cara Makuh
Senior Theses
This creative writing project is about a week I spent alone in Juneau, Alaska. All time and travel was spent on foot, bus and boat. Alone, I had many different experiences, and every time I interacted with a new person, that isolation became a shared experience, if even for a minute. Each day started out a blank slate, and eventually wrote itself into a story with a unique identity of its own as each day does as we travel through seconds and minutes that build up into completed days. Social interactions with so many different people turns them from strangers …