creative nonfiction – Cheri Lucas Rowlands

That Thing I Wrote That Wasn’t True: On Facts, Memoir & John D’Agata

But something happens as time passes—as I drift further from a memory, as a fact is dislodged from the place it had once made sense. I begin to play with a fact: I pluck it out, examine it, and let it stand on its own. It is vulnerable: the context that hugged it is stripped away.

Thoughts on the MFA: What I Did Wrong (and Right)

While I consider my MFA program as a learning stage in my writing life, and had some positive experiences, I wish I had done things differently.