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| Rebecca McClanahan is the author
of nine books, most recently Deep
Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 (Iris Press) and The
Riddle Song and Other Rememberings (University of Georgia Press),
which won the Glasgow Prize in Nonfiction, and
Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More
Descriptively (Writer's Digest Books). Her poems, essays,
and stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Georgia Review,
The Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Boulevard,
Seventeen, and
numerous literary magazines and anthologies throughout the country. McClanahan has received a Pushcart Prize in fiction, the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine, and the Carter prize for the essay from Shenandoah. Her work appears in The Best American Essays 2001, The Best American Poetry 1998, and has been aired on NPR's "The Writer's Almanac," "The Sound of Writing," and "Living on Earth." McClanahan, who earned a Ph.D. and M.A.T. from University of South Carolina and a B.A. from California State University, currently teaches in the MFA program of Queens University (Charlotte, NC), the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. Before moving to New York in 1998 she co-directed The University of North Carolina Writing Project and its affiliates, the Open Institute and the Reading-Writing Institute. For fifteen years she was Writer-in-Residence/Director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Poetry-in-the-Schools Program, for which she received a Governor's Award of Excellence. |
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| Book Publications: Deep Light: New and Selected Poems, 1987-2007 (Iris Press, 2007) The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings (essays, University of Georgia Press, 2002) Write Your Heart Out (instruction, Walking Stick Press, division of Writer's Digest Books, 2001) Naked as Eve (poems, Copper Beech Press, 2000) Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively (instruction, Writer's Digest Books, 1999) The Intersection of X and Y (poems, Copper Beech Press, 1996) One Word Deep: Lectures and Readings (Ashland Poetry Press, 1993) Mrs. Houdini (poems, University Presses of Florida, 1989) Mother Tongue (poems, University Presses of Florida, 1987) |
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| Books/Anthologies Edited: I Dream So Wildly: An Anthology of Children's Poetry (Co-edited with Frye Galliard, Briarpatch Press, 1986) Undercurrents: Conversations About Writing by Teachers At All Levels (Co-edited with Steve Fishman, UNCC Writing Project, 1985) |
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| Anthologies in Which Work
Has Appeared or is Forthcoming: Kiss Tomorrow Hello (Doubleday, 2006) Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction (Norton, 2005) The Best American Essays College Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2003) The Best American Essays 2001 (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) Sorrow’s Company: Writers on Grief and Loss (Beacon Press, 2000) In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (Norton, 1999) The Best American Poetry 1998 (Scribner, 1998) Bearing Life: Women’s Writing on Childlessness (The Feminist Press, 2000) Connecting: Twenty Prominent Authors Write About the Relationships That Shape Our Lives (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 1998) The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XVIII (Pushcart Press, 1993) Boomer Girls: Poems by Women From the Baby Boom Generation (University of Iowa Press, 1999) Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry (Carolina Academic Press, 1999) Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (University Press of New England, 1999) And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century (Ashland Poetry Press, 1999) A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories About the Modern Wedding (St. Martin’s, 1998) The North Carolina Prose Anthology (Avisson Press), Journey Proud: Southern Women’s Personal Writings (Carolina Wren Press, 1994) |
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| Journal Publications: Ms. Magazine, Book, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Quarterly West, Seventeen, Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Crescent Review, Bellingham Review, Malahat Review, New Virginia Review, Nimrod, North Carolina Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, Texas Review, and numerous others. |
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| Honors and Awards: Glasgow Prize in Nonfiction from Shenandoah for The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, 2003 Work selected for The Best American Essays 2001, The Best American Poetry 1998 Carter prize for the Essay from Shenandoah, 1997 Wood Prize from Poetry, 1993-4. North Carolina Writers Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, 1995 MacDowell Colony Residency, 1994 Pushcart Prize in Fiction, 1993 Bread Loaf Fiction Scholarship, 1993 P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Award, 1991 North Carolina Writers Fellowship in Poetry, 1989 Finalist, New Letters essay award, 1992 Finalist, Iowa Short Fiction Award, 1990 Governor's Award of Excellence in Education, 1988 |
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