Rebecca McClanahan

Rebecca McClanahan's tenth book, The Tribal Knot, a multi-generational memoir, was published in 2013, and a new edition of her popular text Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively, appeared in 2014. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, and numerous anthologies. The recipient of the Wood Prize from Poetry, a Pushcart Prize in fiction, the Glasgow Award for nonfiction, and literary fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council, McClanahan teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writing Workshop and is the 2015 Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University.