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Kelly McMasters

Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop owner. She is the author of the Zibby Book Club pick The Leaving Season: A Memoir (WW Norton) and co-editor of the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult). Her first book, Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town, an Orion Book Award nominee and one of Oprah’s top 5 summer memoirs, is the basis for the documentary film ‘The Atomic States of America,’ a 2012 Sundance selection. Her essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Oprah Daily, The Paris Review Daily, River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, and Romper, among others. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Director of Publishing Studies at Hofstra University in NY. Find more here: kellymcmasters.com
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    What to Read When You Want to Leave

    No one can do the hard work of leaving for you, but you can arm yourself with the stories of others—the closest I’ve come to finding a blueprint.