As part of their fall reading series, the Kenyon Review welcomes Rebecca McClanahan for a virtual reading and Q&A.
McClanahan’s newest book, "In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays," is forthcoming this September from Red Hen Press. She is the author of ten previous books, including "The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change" and a revised edition of "Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively," which has sold nearly 50,000 copies and is used as a text in many writing programs. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, The Sun and in anthologies published by Doubleday, Norton, Putnam, Penguin, Beacon, St. Martin’s and numerous other publishers.
Recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Wood Prize from Poetry, and the Glasgow Award in Nonfiction for "The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings," she has also received the North Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and four literary fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council, among other honors and awards.
McClanahan teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University (Charlotte) and Rainier Writing Workshop (Pacific Lutheran University) and at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
A Zoom link will be available soon.