Kathryn Waring is a first-year instructor and MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh. She is Assistant Essays Editor at The Rumpus and can be found on Twitter at @k_waring105.
I met one of my favorite writers before she ever published a single story. We were classmates vying for our MFAs in Creative Writing from Florida International University and would…
I recognize something in the stories... It’s the culture of “I made it” versus the culture of staying behind, the culture of achievement versus the culture of guilt.