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Posts Tagged: Wanting Radiance

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Karen Salyer McElmurray

By Chris Moore

June 10th, 2021

“The grief felt like giving birth, these waves of pain and then receiving.”

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Tags: academia, Appalachia, badlands, bodies, Chris Moore, confessional, essay collection, ghosts, grief, home, Iris Press, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Kentucky, memoir, memory, nonfiction, Sarah Minor, South Dakota, Steven Dunn, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, Surrendered Child, teaching, teaching writing, The Motel of the Stars, The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project, university of virginia, Vermillion, voice lessons, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Wanting Radiance

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #227: Karen Salyer McElmurray

By Chris Moore

July 23rd, 2020

“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”

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Tags: adoption, autofiction, Berea College, birth mother, child abuse, childhood trauma, Chris Moore, genre, ghosts, identity, Julie Marie Wade, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Kentucky, magic, Mary Karr, motherhood, mothers, point of view, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, structure, Sue William Silverman, Surrendered Child, The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project, Wanting Radiance, Wishbone

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