Rebecca McClanahan
Rebecca McClanahan has published ten books, most recently The Tribal Knot (a multigenerational memoir) and a revised edition of Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively. A recipient of the Wood Prize from Poetry, a Pushcart Prize and the Glasgow Award from Shenandoah for her suite of essays The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, McClanahan teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writing Workshop.
Reading List
Breaking the News
She has that look on her face again: the etched brow, the tight mouth. She is trying to work something out in her mind, a mind that travels I know not where. But I know what my mother is about …
Pockets
Pushing the envelope that is his mother the kangaroo joey rides his first heartbeats. As does the wombat, wrapped in darkness, and the cuscus, the sugar glider, flying possum, dasyure. Wise nature, to stitch onto even the smallest pouched-mouse a …